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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by charlieyu1 on Sunday October 05, 2025 @06:43PM (#45485957)
You don’t need cloud when you have the data centre, just backups in physical locations somewhere else
Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by catlifeonmars on Monday October 06, 2025 @01:05AM (#45487794)
Others have pointed out: you need uptime too. So a single data center on the same electric grid or geographic fault zone wouldn’t really cut it. This is one of those times where it sucks to be a small country (geographically).
Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by bell-cot on Monday October 06, 2025 @07:15AM (#45490114)
> so a single data center on the same electrical grid or geographic...

Yes, but your backup DC's can have diesel generators and a few weeks of on-site fuel. It has some quakes - but quake-resistant DC's exist, and SK is big enough to site 3 DC's at the corners of an equilateral triangle with 250km edges. Similar for typhoons. Invading NK armies and nuclear missiles are tougher problems - but having more geography would be of pretty limited use against those.