Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system...
by catlifeonmars on Monday October 06, 2025 @01:05AM
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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).
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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system...
by bell-cot on Monday October 06, 2025 @07:15AM
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> 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.