Seattle Data Center Fire Gets Redundant – AllRecipes.com was just six weeks away from redundant systems…

In: Communication|Computer|Hardware|Site Feeds|Software|VoIP

8 Jul 2009


Last week’s data center fire in Seattle impacted a number of operations, from Internet credit card processing company Authorize.net, to (much more importantly) Popcap games and their Bejeweled Blitz Facebook app. While most people at the time wondered where the redundancy was, Techflash has an interesting report on the fire. The article notes that one impacted company — AllRecipes.com — was about six weeks away from finishing a year-long redundancy effort when the outage hit. Of course the outages highlight the continuing gambles smaller operations take by betting against random chance and hosting all of their eggs in one highly flammable basket. If that basket uses automated sprinklers on your multi-thousand dollar hosting gear, well….
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