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raymor · 07-11-2011, 01:01 PM

Take a guess which data center will go down in flames or get seized by the FBI this year.
It happens every year:

2008

EV1 and RackShack and 9,000 total servers go out in ThePlanet data center fire
Popular host Alphared abandons their data center, leaving customers stranded

2009

Authorize.net, allrecipes.com, Bing travel and thousands of others burned in Fisher Plaza data center fire
Sidekick users lose all data when Microsoft data center upgrade goes awry
4,000 servers at Rackspace go down in four different outages
Most of Core IP data center seized by FBI due to one customer

2010

Wikipedia and many other sites go down when Amsterdam data center they colo in overheats
Wikipedia's OTHER data center in Florida burns
Quicken, Turbo Tax down for days due to power outage
Acronoc data center down, locked up for a week as owners flee the state

Any predictions for the major data center catastrophies of 2011?

We actually had servers at Acronoc when they abandoned their data center, but
although we couldn't get to our servers for a week our sites stayed up due to Clonebox.
It was the Alphared incident two years before that had caused us to launch Clonebox immediately
after a couple years of back burner development. Though Alphared didn't affect us directly,
it was a wake up call that we and the webmasters we work with could no longer have their
entire business at the mercy of a single data center.

So who do you predict will crash and burn this year? Any guesses as to the largest numbers
of servers that will be affected by a single incident this year? My guess is 10,000 servers
in one major data center.

07-11-2011, 01:01 PM
raymor Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,745	Which data center will crash and burn this year? Take a guess which data center will go down in flames or get seized by the FBI this year. It happens every year: 2008 EV1 and RackShack and 9,000 total servers go out in ThePlanet data center fire Popular host Alphared abandons their data center, leaving customers stranded 2009 Authorize.net, allrecipes.com, Bing travel and thousands of others burned in Fisher Plaza data center fire Sidekick users lose all data when Microsoft data center upgrade goes awry 4,000 servers at Rackspace go down in four different outages Most of Core IP data center seized by FBI due to one customer 2010 Wikipedia and many other sites go down when Amsterdam data center they colo in overheats Wikipedia's OTHER data center in Florida burns Quicken, Turbo Tax down for days due to power outage Acronoc data center down, locked up for a week as owners flee the state Any predictions for the major data center catastrophies of 2011? We actually had servers at Acronoc when they abandoned their data center, but although we couldn't get to our servers for a week our sites stayed up due to Clonebox. It was the Alphared incident two years before that had caused us to launch Clonebox immediately after a couple years of back burner development. Though Alphared didn't affect us directly, it was a wake up call that we and the webmasters we work with could no longer have their entire business at the mercy of a single data center. So who do you predict will crash and burn this year? Any guesses as to the largest numbers of servers that will be affected by a single incident this year? My guess is 10,000 servers in one major data center. __________________ For historical display only. This information is not current: support@bettercgi.com ICQ 7208627 Strongbox - The next generation in site security Throttlebox - The next generation in bandwidth control Clonebox - Backup and disaster recovery on steroids Last edited by raymor; 07-11-2011 at 01:12 PM..