Re: FWD: Explanation for the recent major downtime

["Christopher X. Candreva" <chris () westnet com>]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, jc dill wrote:

> My personal website is hosted with DreamHost.  They sent this out to their 
> customers today.  Of interest to NANOG is the bit about the N+1 redundant 
> genset system having 2 generators quickly fail, and in doing so having the 
> UPS fail and the entire data center go dark.  Something to consider in 

For some reason this immediately made me think of " VAXen, my children, just 
don't belong some places."

http://www.crash.com/fun/texts/vaxen-dont.html

We appear to have progressed, marginally, from those days. :-)


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