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oh my. that reminds me of this story that I hadn't thought of in a long time, LOL: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/07/09/outa...

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That article references the explosion at 'The Planet' in 2008, I got caught up in that, that wasn't fun at all. Fortunately we had good off-site backups.

Never knew about the squirrel angle, thank you!

I forgot about that! Glad you came out ok in The Planet explosion, I remember that, it was insane. Fun fact: IBM now owns The Planet’s assets via Softlayer.

By the way, we also were hit in 2003 when a transformer exploded.

This may be a hint that you don't want to colocate where I stuff my machines ;)

EV1 was pretty reliable right up to the point that it wasn't. Taught me some good lessons about multi-DC availability. Some of which were recently re-learned by the folks at OVH.

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