They put their backup server in
LA?
The city thats been
cinematically annihilated more times than any other!
Why one only needs to look at maps from not so long ago to realize that
California is likely to tear itself off of the mainand and strike out on its own at it's
earliest opportunity..
I figured this event needed it's own thread, so moved it from the servere reports thread.
HUGE thanks to gnif for handling this:
https://hostfission.com/
Fission? Degraded
state?
The server was down from 2021-04-04 21:13 UTC to 2021-04-08 03:36 UTC
It's currently still operating in a degraded state, and performance is surrently impacted until the caches catch up.
Gorillaservers upgraded the server box (maybe the old box was water damaged?) from Dual Xeon 2620V2 from the older dual L5630
Presumably they'll upgrade the other redundant box too to match, but the 2nd box is not currently online yet.
The lesson here is, whilst it's great to have a fully redundant automatic backup server, it was kinda silly to have it in the same datacenter!
We are going to ask Gorillaservers is they can provision one of the boxes in their LA data center, so if a whole city/state goes out the server will still operate.
The city of LA is not a secure location. It's as insecure a location as there is in this country.
They suppress all news to the contrary, as a favor to the real estate industry.
Ive been told by a relative who was in a position to know.
They have lots of tornadoes (and waterspouts, of salty water, which Ive seen between the city and Santa Cataline Island. )
And substantial numbers of earthquakes.
I aslo learned the importance of relying on a single email server. I was surprised at the stuff I couldn't do that relied on my primary email for confirmations etc.
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Its truly horrible how much we depend on easily broken computers and unreliable networks.
What if (insert unspeakable tragedy here) ? Huh?
what if.. We need more resilience and redundancy..