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Re:My home lab setup for highly-available Internet by aidos on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @05:53PM (#17453865)
I worked at a place that hosted the servers in-house. They even built a special little air-conditioned room and put a generator on the roof. I never knew all the details but there was dual everything, 2 lines coming in, stuff to switch between them, nothing could possibly go wrong... until the day it did. Turns out someone has plugged all the machines into a single extension cable, and the fuse popped.
Re:My home lab setup for highly-available Internet by walshemj on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @07:03PM (#17454251)
Even the big boys do that in the big storm of 87 in the uk Telecom Gold (an early online service) was quite proud that the UPS kicked in - only to realize that the modems that linked to the x.25 network where not on the UPS :-)