Famous operational issues

Sat Feb 20 20:06:54 UTC 2021

Oh,

I actually wanted to keep this for my memoirs, but if we can name danger 
datacenter operational issues …. somehow 2000s:

Somebody ran its own datacenter,
- once had an active ant colony living under the raised floor and in the 
climate system,
- for a while had several electric grounding defects, leading to the 
work instruction of “don’t touch any metallic or conducting 
materials”,
- for a minute, had a “look what we have bought on Ebay” - UPS 
system, until started to roast after turned on,
- from time to time had climate issues, leading to temperatures around 
peaks  with 68 centigrade room temperature, and yes, some equipment 
survived and even continued to work.

Decided not to go back there, after “look what we have bought on Ebay, 
an argon fire distinguisher, we just need to mount it”.

On 20 Feb 2021, at 10:15, Eric Kuhnke wrote:

> From a datacenter ROI and economics, cooling, HVAC perspective that 
> might
> just be the best colo customer ever. As long as they're paying full 
> price
> for the cabinet and nothing is *dangerous* about how they've hung the 
> 2U
> server vertically, using up all that space for just one thing has to 
> be a
> lot better than a customer that makes full and efficient use of space 
> and
> all the amperage allotted to them.
>
>