Elkhorn, WI
Quoted from GraySaint2006:Maybe I misunderstood you, but I think I read that the data-center used WATER SPRINKLERS?!?!?!?!
What. the. actual. -(profanity deleted)-!!!!! Any date center that does that shouldn't be a data center!!!!
If that was true, you need to change data-centers ASAP to someplace that knows what HALON Suppression
is used for. Stowing the server in a towel closet like Hillery Clinton's email server would have been safer....
I'm Glad everything is getting better and grateful for all the hard work you do for us Robin... THANK YOU!!!
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You can't buy halon anymore (*for all intents and purposes*). There are some replacements, but they are big bucks. Most places decide that you just take the water route because its cheap and easy. Its probably cheaper to just order some new servers for the ones that got ruined (you had backups right????!!!?). That's what insurance is for. The question is, will WebNX recover or will customers run. Its a rare event, but they handled it VERY poorly if you ask me.
For those recommending AWS, they go down too. Everyone does. This kind of event is pretty rare though thankfully. The fact that Robin had backups that were only ~2 hours old is awesome. At my work, our RPO (recovery point objective) is 24 hours (we backup once a day) except our databases which is 1 hour.
