Haven't we seen exactly the same before?
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Jon+Chatow
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It's called thebunker.net, a refurbished former nuclear underground bomb shelter (sound familiar?), and was discussed on/. a while back. Given that "search is down", I can't provide a link, sorry. Personally, I can't see what this particular example of the type adds to the discussion here, but nevermind...
Crackers using tactical nukes
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Anonymous Coward
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By using the same logic as the opponents of the missile defense shield do, co-locating servers underground will only destabilise the net and cause a devastating arms race between the system administrators and crackers. Eventually no amount of rock above your server room will save you. The crackers will just buy tactical nukes and use them to "deny the service".
Therefore locating servers in secure environment must be banned.
Re:Crackers using tactical nukes
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Anonymous Coward
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Actually underground shelters do provide rather good protection from nuclear blasts (both from airburst and ground-level detonations). It would take a penetrator nuke to take out a well-built shelter, but I don't know if such things exist.
sup
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Anonymous Coward
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sounds good, but the jews will find a way to take control of it. Probably though political correctness brainwashing. Most people can't resist that. They are fooled into become nigger lovers and kyke lovers. Then next thing they know their in the middle of Africa getting a beat down from a mad aids monkey becuase some capitalist jewish slavemaster sent them to do some tech work there.
Re:sup
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Anonymous Coward
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They are fooled into become nigger lovers and kyke lovers.
To quote a famous pop-artist: "I'm a lover, not a fighter!"
Besides I love the way the dark, jewish women give head by wrapping their luscious lips around my thick, throbbing white cock. It's great fun taking a black woman from behind, too.
Don't knock it until you try it!
Re:sup
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Anonymous Coward
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Re:sup
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Anonymous Coward
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That site is disgusting and should be shut down.
If it were in Europe I'd start a public campaign against it, but since it's probably in the States there's nothing anybody can do. It's amazing that you people tolerate this kind of shit. On the other hand, you've never experience a world war on your own continent...
Re:sup
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Anonymous Coward
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I only hope America is lucky enogh to produce the next Hitler. America has enough power to finally rid the world of kykes and niggers.
Re:sup
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Anonymous Coward
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Dream on, moron. Most of us Americans would never tolerate a war of conquest.
Re:sup
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Anonymous Coward
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War of conquest? Hitler was just trying to make the earth a better place by eliminating some unwanted pests.
Re:sup
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Anonymous Coward
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Hitler was just trying to make the earth a better place by eliminating some unwanted pests.
Ironically he was successful, but not in the way he or you might imagine.
Lots of unwanted nazi scum died in the process thus cleaning the world's gene pool of some of the worst manifestations of the "racist moron with a jackboot fetish"-gene. Too bad remains of the gene still remains in people like you, but in such a degenerate form that you'll never pose a threat again.
Re:sup
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Anonymous Coward
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So sad, many of the weaker minded peons such as yourself have fallen victim to jewish brainwashing. You are strongly under their control, it's kinda sad, but someday they will be eliminated and your mind will be set free.
Re:sup
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Anonymous Coward
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Listen pal, just cuase the jews murdered jesus is no reason to call them bad guys. Sure they got most of their riches through the slave trade, but since they control the media they can smooth over the centuries of promoting slavery with a couple movies like amistad. If it wasn't for the jews who would be around to sue napster into oblivion? who would do the lobbying to get great laws like the dmca passed? are you up to that challenge? i didn't think so, so just let our jewish friends do their thing ok buddy.
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I sort of Agree
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Anonymous Coward
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It's also very important that collocation housings use good monitoring software. Even if your colo is in some sort of bunker, you still need to have good software that monitors links, peers and ofcourse the servers itself.
Some guy wrote the perfect software for this, it always good usable for your own home network:
Re:I sort of Agree
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Anonymous Coward
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is that the new closed source version of sourceforge?
Re:I sort of Agree
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Anonymous Coward
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Yeah. It sucks, SourceForge has so much downtime these days. I wouldn't want to run their software, as it isn't even capable of having 10.000 projects.
Sourceforge is too much down, that's why I usually go to Freshmeat.net.
You, Sir, are a prime example of the illiterate and racist white trash. Having trouble with comprehending what you read, you mental midget?
I hope you're caught stealing one day and sent to jail where first each man of the Aryan brotherhood will fuck you in the ass on a daily basis and when you're asshole becomes as loose as the Goatse-guy's, they'll throw you to the tender mercies of the black prison community. I hope you're proud of your swastika-tattoo, then.
this post is mind numbingly fast
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Anonymous Coward
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in fact this post is so FAST my anal spinchter hardly begins to implode as I shit down Jon Katz throat
Isnt this a redundant concept but ?
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q-soe
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I like the idea but i was sitting here wondering that in this day of supposedly low cost bandsidth why would you go to the cost of building huge co-los in destruction proof environments ?
There is a secure need for co-lo fdacilites etc but why not just build a mirrod system with 4-5 sites carrying the data - a sort of broadband raid, this would cut down the need for these facilites.
Now this is only an idea and it might have a million logical reasons behind it but would it not be cheaper that concrete bunkers and dedicated power systems and such ? (i am asking would it or not?)
Or is it that clients like a cool ultra secure bunker - it makes them feel good and powerfull ?
Any thoughts?
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Re:Isnt this a redundant concept but ?
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Anonymous Coward
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Don't you know it's past bedtime for karma whores?
Re:Isnt this a redundant concept but ?
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Anonymous Coward
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Karma whores don't sleep.
Only trolls do. Soon it's time to turn Slashdot over to our European troll friends.
Re:Isnt this a redundant concept but ?
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RAruler
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Why? Paying for 4-5 sites would probably be more expensive than just one. This one was built in a space that was not being utilized to the max, they didn't have a group looking for 'The Ultimate Colocation Center'. It also saves cost, the cooling systems consist of a couple of fans. I'm assuming, but the cooling in some datacenters must be budget consuming beasts.
It also has some other unique features, it'd be awfully hard for someone to steal your box, as its inside a mine:) It's also pretty much immune from fires, some idiot with a car slamming into your building.. etc.. It also has a ton of room, something cities are in short supply, as well it'll be one of the first things powered back up. Besides, some people want their data stored in a place that is indeed bombproof. Hell, this thing might even be immune to EMP, because of its particular location.
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Re:Isnt this a redundant concept but ?
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nettdata
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There is a secure need for co-lo facilites etc but why not just build a mirrored system with 4-5 sites carrying the data - a sort of broadband raid, this would cut down the need for these facilites
How about cost, performance, and design restrictions?
I think you're assuming that such a site would be serving basic, somewhat static html, in which case that may be an option. But I don't think that it would work out for a more complex application.
I design/develop/administrate a lot of Oracle-specific system architectures, specifically for sites with large numbers of financial transactions *cough - gambling - cough*, and let me tell you that such physically distributed systems can be EXPENSIVE, both in cash (eg: network/storage infrastructure is almost duplicated) and performance (latency involved in a physically distributed 2-phase commit will kill performance on the client side). Lets not even talk about the logistics involved in running/managing/designing a large physically distributed Oracle cluster!
Sometimes it is WAY cheaper to put all of your eggs into one cushy, bomb-proof basket.
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gotta mention
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Anonymous Coward
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And yes, it's me. I'm not afraid to put a face to the crapflood.
These guys really thought this out!
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baptiste
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I have to say I'm impressed!
First off though - the line "it has a virtually unlimited supply of free, humid, 50-degree Fahrenheit air. USDCO simply hooks up two large fans in each room" Humid? Err - isn't that a BAD thing for a data center? I know it was when I managed one. But man - 50 degrees abient temp would be sweet! The 10K sq ft data center I used to manage had like 5 Liebert cooling towers and it STILL seemed to get too warm at times!
I love how they know they'll be back on-grid quickly because of the food storage - and hey - you don't have to go up to the surface to eat lunch! Sweet!
How nice to see a tech company say "We've had VC offers because our business plan is obviously good and obviously different, but we want to grow organically. Alsoâ"it may be a Western Michigan thingâ"but we believe in something called 'service.' We don't want to expand too fast." If only more tech companies had realized that the VC money was a bad thing!
I wish them the best of luck! Course it would suck working there - man talk about being a pasty white geek!
Time to invest in some fiber to pipe in sunlight:)
Re:These guys really thought this out!
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Kryptonomic
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The 10K sq ft data center I used to manage had like 5 Liebert cooling towers
I'm really looking for the day when I can find my way to a co-location site like this just by looking for the cooling towers steaming outside...
Re:These guys really thought this out!
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The+Mayor
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Dry air results in static electricity. Unless the data center is in a swamp (e.g. Houston, New Orleans), the data center probably has both a dehumidifier and a humidifier. Humidifiers are very common in data centers.
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Re:These guys really thought this out!
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NaturePhotog
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In theory, mines might be vulnerable to flooding or earthquakes, but these are geological rarities for inland Michigan.
Floods a "geological rarity" in Michigan? Not when I lived there. Every spring there are floods around the state on various rivers. I forget the name of the river that flows through Grand Rapids, but Grand Rapids wasn't named for fast-moving concert pianos...
In any event, near a river or not, most mines (don't know about gypsum mines) have some ground water seepage, and as a result have sumps and electrically powered pumps to keep the water at bay. I'd be a bit worried about losing power for an extended periods. Of course you have short-term data issues then, but it could easily lead to long-term...er...damage issues.
Re:These guys really thought this out!
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Anonymous Coward
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The data center is well below the water table. Water is not an issue.
From the space available, ability to provide connectivity up to oc192 and the inexpensive pricing, I can't imagine this wouldn't do well. Unless people in Michigan are afraid to go that far underground.
What I would like to know is, what type of demand for co-location services are there in Michigan?
And how long does it take to get from ground level to the data center?
POWERBALL ! - don't forget to buy your ticket
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Anonymous Coward
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300,000,000 dollar Jackpot. Yeahhhhh Buddy !
Tonight is the night. When I win, I'm gonna
buy Slashdot and kick Taco and his crew out on
their asses.
Re:POWERBALL ! - don't forget to buy your ticket
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Anonymous Coward
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Buy Taco and make him your sex slave.
You can either fire Jon Katz or make him a jizz-mopper.
My apartment
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Anonymous Coward
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My apartment is a mess. Tables full of beer bottles and discarded pizza boxes litter the floor. And that goddamn 1.2 GHz AMD box is still open. The MSI motherboard will run the 200 MHZ FSB 1.2 GHz processor only at 900 MHz. Fucking piece of crap!
And the security guards name is...
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DuncanMurray
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B.J. Blazkowicz
well, it sure looked like the game - and bosses name is 'Wolfson'
yeh, yeh, I know - I'm showing my age - but Wolfenstein was a top game
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1.2 GHz CPU running at 900 MHz
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Anonymous Coward
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Let me guess... the MSI board has a 100 MHz FSB?
You're installing the CPU on a wrong kind of a motherboard, moron.
Free Brian Regan!
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Anonymous Coward
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Re:Free Brian Regan!
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Anonymous Coward
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He, I spy pr0n for france !
MEEPT!!
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Anonymous Coward
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Ho! Ho!
Jesus. How much money is this slashdot website losing per day ? I can't keep up?
Open source? Open sore-ass.
All you open sore ass people have just become dinosaurs.
Open sore ass dino sore asses.
Your day has come and gone.
Nobody listened to meept. But now you are subtely shifting towards his point of view.
MEEPT!!
There should no age of consent!
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Anonymous Coward
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From what I've seen people here on Slashdot seem to be strongly against government intrusion into our lives. Here's my rant.
Sex,
in our society is an issue in people's day-to-day lives. When two people are in a relationship around the teenage years, sex is always an issue. Sex is an intimate thing shared between two people. The government nonetheless has a set of
rules about when a person is ready to have sexual intercourse
which is called "the age of consent." Not surprisingly
there are many disagreements about whether or not there should
be an age of consent. There should not be an age of consent
because the rules as they now exist are too complicated, a
person should be able to decide when he/she is ready to have
sex, and every person matures at a different rate. The current
age of consent in Canada is 14. There is a lot of talk about
raising that age to 18. If the age is raised to 18, teens are
going to sneak around and have sexual intercourse anyway. For
the most part sex happens behind closed doors, in peoples
personal lives. The government should not be able to say
"Teens are not aloud to indulge in any sexual acts."
Kissing is a sexual act. Some couples don't go past that yet
for other couples it is a form of foreplay. The things that
couples do is their business, not the governments. No one is
going to quite doing everything that they do because the
government passes a new law. Sexual acts will still be
performed if the government supports them or not. I do not
believe their should be an age of consent! Teens are always
being told they are not old enough to make their own decisions, yet teens are also told to 'act like adults!'
Re:There should no age of consent!
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Anonymous Coward
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Duh the age of consent doens't mean two people under it can't fuck legally. It just means some dirty old man can't go to some junior high school and try and pick up little teenage bitches.
Re:There should no age of consent!
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Anonymous Coward
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also it helps stop teenage pregnancy down. The less teenage niggers that get knocked up the smaller the welfare rolls will be.
Re:There should no age of consent!
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Anonymous Coward
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Nice you fucking bastard, you forgot about some other people.
What about kikes, WAPs, frogs, limeys, spics, nips and other gooks?
Best place to be when there is a war.
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archibald+tuttle
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When there is a nuclear war and they get stuck in that thing, they can eat all that stored food and play quake 3 for the rest of their live:-)
yup
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Anonymous Coward
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my dick is very large.
Jackpot
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Anonymous Coward
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What's the current jackpot for hitting post #2222222?
IMPORTANT Re:There should no age of consent!
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Anonymous Coward
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Someone should reply ASCII goatse to this pedo rant !
Re:IMPORTANT Re:There should no age of consent!
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Anonymous Coward
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So, what in your opinion makes an 18 year old teenager more capable of handling sex than a let's say 17 year old?
[OT] Re:Slashdot is fixed...
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Anonymous Coward
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The reasonsing for slashcode putting [domain] isn't to make clear the destination as the domain alone isn't enough detail to safe guard users. Indeed, the above post proves this. The square brackets domain is an anti-goatse.cx measure and, whats worse, it isn't smart in the way it reads the url. It doesn't understand redirect URLs (on Netscape.com) neither should it be expected to. HTTP headers may redirect and there are a million tricks to redirect users. Previously we had a benign goatse link here and there but now - to achieve the same objectives - the trolls are forced to mislead people stealthfully. Slashcode has successfully breed a better strain of troll. You should be very proud, slashcode.
Re:[OT] Re:Slashdot is fixed...
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Klerck
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I dunno if slashcode is proud, but god damn, I sure am!
I might need this...
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Anonymous Coward
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I might need to be in an underground bomb shelter once somebody gets suspended from school for using this book bag!!
Come on... buy one.. I'm a poor college kid! =(
moneymoneymoneymoneymoney
Not quite the same
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XNormal
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This mine should be at least as secure as a suburban datacenter for a lower physical security budget. It has cooling that is at least as reliable as a conventional datacenter for a lower budget. These should translate to cost savings for their customers.
These guys appear to concentrate on bringing a cost-effective service to their customers rather than nuclear bunker bragging rights. Have you seen the prices on thebunker.net?
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Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
Re:Not quite the same
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Anonymous Coward
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You are absolutely correct. USDCO is all about being the best choice AND the best price! And if by chance they just so happen to be able to withstand a nuclear blast...good for them!!
Underground hackers of a different sort..
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Myself
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This submission got rejected, but you might enjoy the RealAudio of Friday's Diane Rehm show (on NPR) about the exploration of Mammoth Cave. The politics between the explorers is amazingly similar to most hackers I know! Give a listen.
Re:Underground hackers of a different sort..
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fyonn
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you sure about that link tiger? all I got was some talk about the rise of buddism in america, exciting stuff let me tell you.
dave
PS. esc : w q doesn't save and quit the post you know...
Plenty of demand in Michigan..
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Myself
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There's a big NAP in Chicago, and Grand Rapids isn't far from there. Plenty of fat pipes run right past GR or Kalamazoo on their way from Chicago to Lansing.
There's another mine in Detroit that closed down a few years ago due to unfavorable economic conditions. We went on a tour just before they shut it down, thinking we'd be some of the last humans in that mine. (They were considering turning it into a nuclear waste storage facility, because the salt vein is so geologically stable.) They modernized and reopened the mine in 1998 though. Once the salt's removed from an area, it becomes useless. Data co-lo is an ideal way for the mine companies to get income from space that otherwise sits idle.
A big secure co-lo in Detroit would be great. We already have a few large above-ground facilities, and Detroit's a great place to locate NOCs because it doesn't have hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. We get the occasional tornado but those usually just rip up awnings. A subterranean co-lo, just a few miles from the NOC, seems like an ideal scenario.
Re:Plenty of demand in Michigan..
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Ratbert42
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...Detroit's a great place to locate NOCs...
I dunno. I've been to Detroit and I'd rather live underground.
Haven't I seen this before?
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Anonymous Coward
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Cryptonomicon all over again, just in a different place.
I seem to recall another/. article a while back related to problems with data centers; this really hits the spot.
Going subterranean is, IMHO, one of the best options we've got right now. You get (1) better/cheaper cooling (unless you decide to dig around geothermal vents;), (2) better security (fewer potential points of entry), etc.
Now, what really surprised me was the statement that they'd be offered base level colocation for around $100 a month for 1U. Needless to say, this is pretty decent, especially given the bandwidth they appear to be wielding (up to OC-192?!?!?! nice:)). Seems like a very good solution all in all, but here's the catch: how many sites exist that are this ideal? In their case, the "hole" was already there (no digging costs), and all they've really had to worry about is bandwidth provisioning and erecting lots of basic walls. Anyone know of more sites that meet these conditions?
Re:Good deal!
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Anonymous Coward
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There are a heck of a lot of viable mines. Especiall in the case where gypsun and quartz are/were mined.
Re:Good deal!
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Anonymous Coward
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Not all mines are viable for this plan. And the fact that this one has been used for food storage since 1957 meant pre-exisiting infrastructure including elevators, heavy power over two grids, backup generators, cement floors and more space than you could ever need all on a single level.
"My data center is weirder than yours" competition
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First HavenCo, then this; what will they think of next?
wonderful, so if the world comes to an end and the data cables that people access your server on get destroyed, you will STILL be able to claim 99.999% uptime, even though NOBODY is able to acess the data, right?
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Re:POWERBALL ! - don't forget to buy your ticket
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Anonymous Coward
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CowboyNeal is a tax on people who can't do math.
OC-192
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Anonymous Coward
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So how do I get one ran in my "data" center? I run apache on my old Dell P75!
Wahs up sf
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Anonymous Coward
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I love grits and goats
Microsoft is of the devel, mod me up plz.
Mods suck
Re:MOD UP
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Anonymous Coward
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I'm no troll, no sir ree im gonna live to be a hundred and 3
TO HELL WITH SLASHDOT
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Anonymous Coward
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Dear Slashdot,
I would like you to take your site offline. Please do or I will stick my goons on you.
-Bill Gates
-billg@microsoft.com
Flooding would be my big concern...
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shoppa
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The agency I work for has a data center about
80 feet underground too. (Not in rural
Michigan, but in downtown Washington DC, I should
point out.) The biggest worry the insurance
underwriters have is flooding - not so much from
a natural disaster as a goof in the plumbing
above our heads. Moisture detectors everywhere
under the false floor. When I spilled coffee
in one of the machine rooms a couple of weeks ago
I saw the swiftest response by building
maintenance I've ever witnessed!
Taking out the computers that run a $10Billion
peripheral is pretty bad for your business plan,
it turns out!
Grand Rapids may not be as big as some Michigan cities, but it's not "rural" either. You may be confusing Grand Rapids with Big Rapids (about 50 miles North), which is a tiny little town, marked mostly by an
As a sysadmin at a Grand Rapids company considering colocating 15 rack U's or so of Linux goodness with USDCO, I've had the opportunity to take several tours of their facility (one was yesterday, in fact). I'll clarify a few points I saw browsing through the comments:
Humid? Err - isn't that a BAD thing for a data center?
Nope. You need 50-60% relative humidity, or static electricity starts to destroy your equipment.
These guys appear to concentrate on bringing a cost-effective service to their customers rather than nuclear bunker bragging rights.
Indeed - their price of $100+80(n-1) per month, where n=# of U's you need, is quite reasonable, especially for a smaller company like us.
And how long does it take to get from ground level to the data center?
The elevators can take you up or down the 85-foot tunnels in about 45 seconds.
In any event, near a river or not, most mines (don't know about gypsum mines) have some ground water seepage, and as a result have sumps and electrically powered pumps to keep the water at bay.
Indeed, there are a few areas in which small pools of water form from the ground seepage. However, these are, as you say, sump pumped away, and no such pool is anywhere in the vicinity of the data center itself.
I forget the name of the river that flows through Grand Rapids, but Grand Rapids wasn't named for fast-moving concert pianos.
It's the Grand River, surprisingly enough...:)
hey - you don't have to go up to the surface to eat lunch! Sweet!
Sorry - the food stored down in the mine itself (as opposed to the storage in the aboveground buildings on top of the mine) consists of 2000-pound (1-ton) lugs of powdered milk for the yogurt factory close to the mine... icky for lunch.:)
Or is it that clients like a cool ultra secure bunker - it makes them feel good and powerfull
Not to mention 31337...:)
-- We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.
The LAN down under
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Anonymous Coward
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What a concept! Free air conditioning, scalable space, physical security, ecologically responsible, rock bottom prices, and virtually unlimited bandwidth & floor load capacity. Their web site has better info than the article: www.usdco.com
co-location isn't enough
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Anonymous Coward
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If you want protection, a single co-lo isn't
going to stand against all failures. Multi-location
is where it's at.
I was on a caving trip once, and one of the NiCd packs internally shorted when we were in a fairly small chamber. Fortunately a microtemp fuse cut off the offending battery before the pack melted, so we didn't get any poisonous gases.
But how would you go in the mine? What if a tantalum shorts out and the place gets filled with smoke?
Do you all get to play with the breathing apparatus, or what?
Slashdot Mirror
sounds interesting, but who will actually need this? :)
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Never thought I'd stick around that long.
... on the sub-"ISP" level...
||| I still can't believe Parkay's not butter.
ya but can it keep the niggers out?
It's called thebunker.net, a refurbished former nuclear underground bomb shelter (sound familiar?), and was discussed on /. a while back. Given that "search is down", I can't provide a link, sorry. Personally, I can't see what this particular example of the type adds to the discussion here, but nevermind...
James F.
was co-lo in an (formerly) abandoned platform in the Northern Sea, then this. Whhat's next? A submarine? Co-lo in the international space station?
It's just a BloJJ
Therefore locating servers in secure environment must be banned.
sounds good, but the jews will find a way to take control of it. Probably though political correctness brainwashing. Most people can't resist that. They are fooled into become nigger lovers and kyke lovers. Then next thing they know their in the middle of Africa getting a beat down from a mad aids monkey becuase some capitalist jewish slavemaster sent them to do some tech work there.
It's also very important that collocation
housings use good monitoring software. Even
if your colo is in some sort of bunker, you still
need to have good software that monitors
links, peers and ofcourse the servers itself.
Some guy wrote the perfect software for this, it
always good usable for your own home network:
You can download it here: here
Ya like when some crack crazed jigaboo steals one of the servers and runs towards the nearest pawn shop that's not a denial of service?
How Underground Geekish.
in fact this post is so FAST my anal spinchter hardly begins to implode as I shit down Jon Katz throat
I like the idea but i was sitting here wondering that in this day of supposedly low cost bandsidth why would you go to the cost of building huge co-los in destruction proof environments ?
There is a secure need for co-lo fdacilites etc but why not just build a mirrod system with 4-5 sites carrying the data - a sort of broadband raid, this would cut down the need for these facilites.
Now this is only an idea and it might have a million logical reasons behind it but would it not be cheaper that concrete bunkers and dedicated power systems and such ? (i am asking would it or not?)
Or is it that clients like a cool ultra secure bunker - it makes them feel good and powerfull ?
Any thoughts?
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First off though - the line "it has a virtually unlimited supply of free, humid, 50-degree Fahrenheit air. USDCO simply hooks up two large fans in each room" Humid? Err - isn't that a BAD thing for a data center? I know it was when I managed one. But man - 50 degrees abient temp would be sweet! The 10K sq ft data center I used to manage had like 5 Liebert cooling towers and it STILL seemed to get too warm at times!
I love how they know they'll be back on-grid quickly because of the food storage - and hey - you don't have to go up to the surface to eat lunch! Sweet!
How nice to see a tech company say "We've had VC offers because our business plan is obviously good and obviously different, but we want to grow organically. Alsoâ"it may be a Western Michigan thingâ"but we believe in something called 'service.' We don't want to expand too fast." If only more tech companies had realized that the VC money was a bad thing!
I wish them the best of luck! Course it would suck working there - man talk about being a pasty white geek! Time to invest in some fiber to pipe in sunlight :)
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From the space available, ability to provide connectivity up to oc192 and the inexpensive pricing, I can't imagine this wouldn't do well. Unless people in Michigan are afraid to go that far underground.
What I would like to know is, what type of demand for co-location services are there in Michigan?
And how long does it take to get from ground level to the data center?
Anyone?
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This mine should be at least as secure as a suburban datacenter for a lower physical security budget. It has cooling that is at least as reliable as a conventional datacenter for a lower budget. These should translate to cost savings for their customers.
These guys appear to concentrate on bringing a cost-effective service to their customers rather than nuclear bunker bragging rights. Have you seen the prices on thebunker.net?
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
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There's a big NAP in Chicago, and Grand Rapids isn't far from there. Plenty of fat pipes run right past GR or Kalamazoo on their way from Chicago to Lansing.
There's another mine in Detroit that closed down a few years ago due to unfavorable economic conditions. We went on a tour just before they shut it down, thinking we'd be some of the last humans in that mine. (They were considering turning it into a nuclear waste storage facility, because the salt vein is so geologically stable.) They modernized and reopened the mine in 1998 though. Once the salt's removed from an area, it becomes useless. Data co-lo is an ideal way for the mine companies to get income from space that otherwise sits idle.
A big secure co-lo in Detroit would be great. We already have a few large above-ground facilities, and Detroit's a great place to locate NOCs because it doesn't have hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. We get the occasional tornado but those usually just rip up awnings. A subterranean co-lo, just a few miles from the NOC, seems like an ideal scenario.
Cryptonomicon all over again, just in a different place.
I seem to recall another
Going subterranean is, IMHO, one of the best options we've got right now. You get (1) better/cheaper cooling (unless you decide to dig around geothermal vents
Now, what really surprised me was the statement that they'd be offered base level colocation for around $100 a month for 1U. Needless to say, this is pretty decent, especially given the bandwidth they appear to be wielding (up to OC-192?!?!?! nice
First HavenCo, then this; what will they think of next?
wonderful, so if the world comes to an end and the data cables that people access your server on get destroyed, you will STILL be able to claim 99.999% uptime, even though NOBODY is able to acess the data, right?
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So how do I get one ran in my "data" center? I run apache on my old Dell P75!
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The agency I work for has a data center about
80 feet underground too. (Not in rural
Michigan, but in downtown Washington DC, I should
point out.) The biggest worry the insurance
underwriters have is flooding - not so much from
a natural disaster as a goof in the plumbing
above our heads. Moisture detectors everywhere
under the false floor. When I spilled coffee
in one of the machine rooms a couple of weeks ago
I saw the swiftest response by building
maintenance I've ever witnessed!
Taking out the computers that run a $10Billion
peripheral is pretty bad for your business plan,
it turns out!
$100/ru with 10gb/mo thats very expensive. With all the natural features of this datacenter you'd think these guys could do better....
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Grand Rapids may not be as big as some Michigan cities, but it's not "rural" either. You may be confusing Grand Rapids with Big Rapids (about 50 miles North), which is a tiny little town, marked mostly by an
As a sysadmin at a Grand Rapids company considering colocating 15 rack U's or so of Linux goodness with USDCO, I've had the opportunity to take several tours of their facility (one was yesterday, in fact). I'll clarify a few points I saw browsing through the comments:
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Humid? Err - isn't that a BAD thing for a data center?
Nope. You need 50-60% relative humidity, or static electricity starts to destroy your equipment.
These guys appear to concentrate on bringing a cost-effective service to their customers rather than nuclear bunker bragging rights.
Indeed - their price of $100+80(n-1) per month, where n=# of U's you need, is quite reasonable, especially for a smaller company like us.
And how long does it take to get from ground level to the data center?
The elevators can take you up or down the 85-foot tunnels in about 45 seconds.
In any event, near a river or not, most mines (don't know about gypsum mines) have some ground water seepage, and as a result have sumps and electrically powered pumps to keep the water at bay.
Indeed, there are a few areas in which small pools of water form from the ground seepage. However, these are, as you say, sump pumped away, and no such pool is anywhere in the vicinity of the data center itself.
I forget the name of the river that flows through Grand Rapids, but Grand Rapids wasn't named for fast-moving concert pianos.
It's the Grand River, surprisingly enough...
hey - you don't have to go up to the surface to eat lunch! Sweet!
Sorry - the food stored down in the mine itself (as opposed to the storage in the aboveground buildings on top of the mine) consists of 2000-pound (1-ton) lugs of powdered milk for the yogurt factory close to the mine... icky for lunch.
Or is it that clients like a cool ultra secure bunker - it makes them feel good and powerfull
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What a concept! Free air conditioning, scalable space, physical security, ecologically responsible, rock bottom prices, and virtually unlimited bandwidth & floor load capacity. Their web site has better info than the article: www.usdco.com
If you want protection, a single co-lo isn't going to stand against all failures. Multi-location is where it's at.
I was on a caving trip once, and one of the NiCd packs internally shorted when we were in a fairly small chamber. Fortunately a microtemp fuse cut off the offending battery before the pack melted, so we didn't get any poisonous gases.
But how would you go in the mine? What if a tantalum shorts out and the place gets filled with smoke?
Do you all get to play with the breathing apparatus, or what?