▲ | toddmorey 4 hours ago | |||||||
Reminds me of the old Rackspace days! Boy we had some war stories:
Data center science has... well improved since the earlier days. We worked with Facebook on the OpenCompute Project that had some very forward looking infra concepts at the time. | ||||||||
▲ | latchkey an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
We had a bird land on a transformer up on a pole and blew fuses. A couple years later, I toured the facility and the fried carcass was still there on the ground below it. | ||||||||
▲ | lostlogin 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
> There was one day we knocked out windows and purchased box fans because servers were literally catching on fire. Pointing the fans in or out? | ||||||||
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▲ | wgx an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
I recall getting a DC tour of LON3 and being totally blown away by it all as a 20-something web dev. Good times. |