another problem are power flickers. a short flicker resets modems and routers. so you read a book or talk rather than waste battery
> so you read a book or talk rather than waste battery
OK, I'm convinced. Next hurricane I'm traveling to Florida with the kids!When we lose power the battery backup for the modem takes over(15hrs runtime), and we have other portable batteries to recharge our phones multiple times.
If things get really bad, we can pull out the camping solar panels and keep the phones charged. At that point, I expect the fiber will be down anyways and cell service is probably all that would be available.
Works quite well. I can usually still complete my work day on my laptop without issue.
* That being said, we installed a whole house gen a couple years ago, so that's been nice to keep the a/c on and the fridge stuff safe.
Actually having solar or a generator is definitely a good idea for homes, but apartments also lose power.
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It would be really neat to figure out the cooperation necessary to effectively use it. Rapid damage assessment has a ton of value even if the data is somewhat unreliable.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Nevermind: The actual livejournal posts are still up.
Start here: https://interdictor.livejournal.com/2005/08/27/
Then just move forward day by day. (next day link in the lower right corner)
If I remember correctly it was someone called Usurper or The Usurper and they chronicled their journey at the time looking after a DC during Katrina. It may not have been a whole DC, possibly it was a business and their (smaller set of) servers, but my memory fails me.
Unfortunately I can't remember what medium it was written on - a blog of some sort? Heck, it could even have been on the Something Awful forums given the year.
I remember stories of struggling to find fresh sources of gas for the generator and all the fun involved in getting it from A to B.
Anyone else remember that? I'd love to have another read of it now, and I think some of you might too. It'll offer a bit of insight of what's to come this year too.
Looks like the posts start at https://interdictor.livejournal.com/?skip=340 and newer ones can be found via the 'Next 10' link at the lower right.
Thanks Julian!
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/reliving-sand...
The redundancy is in having your data and infrastructure in multiple buildings and geographic locations.
This is due to a myriad of reasons but they all boil down to cost and practicality. The scale of modern facilities typically eclipses anything built 20 years ago by a huge margin which further limits site selection.
The days of AT&T long lines are long gone. Simply driving a standard SUV through the right wall or two in most facilities would be enough to cripple them for a long while, much less flooding or a direct hit by hurricane force winds.
Of course there are exceptions.
aka "RAIDC" -- redundant array of inexpensive data centers. :)
I have seen >3' of water next to a building with infrastructure in the ground level that were fine, though. Seepage barriers and sump pumps and elevating things a little bit can do more than you'd think.
It's also worth noting that however high the storm surge is -- your infrastructure is probably at least a little above sea level.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/healt...