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ISP Recovers in 72 Hours After Leveling by Tornado
aldheorte writes "Amazing story of how an ISP in Jackson, TN, whose main facility was completely leveled by a tornado, recovered in 72 hours. The story is a great recounting of how they executed their disaster recovery plan, what they found they had left out of that plan, data recovery from destroyed hard drives, and perhaps the best argument ever for offsite backups. (Not affiliated with the ISP in question)"
Hopefully no one was hurt when the trailer park got levelled.
when Munchkins overrun the web now that this ISP got relocated by the twister.
"So, ah, your ISP here.. what's your uptime for the last year?"
"99.18% for our service, and 96.2% for our building."
And I'm sure every minute of those 72 hours was characterized by irate phone calls to tech support.
"Are you guys down again? You're down more than you're up! I'm going to find another service... etc..."
"Ma'am our facilities have been entirely leveled by a tornado, we'll be back up in 72 hours."
"72 HOURS?! I have photos of my grandchildren I have to mail! Worst ISP ever! Let me speak to your supervisor!"
"Ma'am our supervisor was also leveled by the tornado."
*click*
Not that I work tech support for an ISP and am bitter...
When your business gets pelted with the equivalent force of 100,000 elephants, you better have a friggin contingency plan.
--"The perfect example of the man of action is the suicide." - William Carlos Williams
Hah, they can recover from a tornado. That's no biggie. How 'bout a SLASHDOTTING, then!
A Tornado huh?
Well that's what you casemodders get for installing twenty overpowered cooling fans in every one of your 1000 servers!
Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
Let the OZ jokes flow:
"Bring me the router of the wicked switch of the Qwest!"
Although, I am starting to wonder. Has anyone checked to see if this ISP has a record of resisting RIAA subpeonas? Perhaps the RIAA levelled it after acquiring cloudbuster equipment.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
. . . how long will it take the article's host to recover from the slashdot effect?
'I ain't a liar, baby, and I ain't proud I just want what I'm not allowed.' -- Violent Femmes, 36-24-36
No, in Russia Tornado does not own you. Neither does ISP. It is not, step 1) tornado step 2) ??? step 3) ISP recovers. There is not a beowulf cluster of these, and the tornado doesn't run Linux.
Build a better building!
Unfortunately, computerworld.com may take longer to recover from the ./ effect.
I, for one, welcome our new twister overlords.
+1 Informative?!?
Does that mean that some moderator actually believes that we have, indeed, been conquered by twisters?
But, as a programmer, I just dont care.
When I was a sophomore, working on my electrical engineering degree, I worked for a small, network-centric company that employed what seemed to be an abnormal number of snooty programmers and technical writers. Maybe it wasn't so abnormal.
Me: "Hi, IT support."
Stratjakt: "Hey, I know you're just a high-school educated 'IT person', but you need to get one of your cable monkeys up here and find out why I can't see the network!"
Me:: "OK, but let's check a couple of things quickly before I dispatch a technician. It may save some time."
Stratjakt: "Hey, I'm a programmer! I just don't care!"
Me: "I understand...I realize that my mundane existance doesn't have the exhilaration and exitedness of the thrilling, edge-of-your-seat world of a computer programmer, but there are just a few simple things that we could do to resolve this problem that will be faster than you waiting for a technician."
Stratjakt: "I just don't care."
Me: "No problem, I'll dispatch a technican."
An hour later...
Technician: "Stratjakt is all fixed up. I plugged his network cable back into the jack."
Our ISP was leveled in a Tornado.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
I, for one, welcome our new Tornado-beating ISP overlords.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
Can they recover from the slashdot effect???
The slashdot effect differs from a tornado in a few subtle ways:
1) You can't see it coming (unless you pay money to be a subscriber)
2) It doesn't hurt anything, except for webservers, the occasional OC line lit up like New Year's Eve, spammers, and the odd *IAA executive.
3) A tornado doesn't typically smell like armpits, cheetos, empty 64oz soda cups, burning plastic, your parent's basement and/or too much cologne for that first date.
4) It travels at the speed of light, a lot quicker than a tornado.
5) Does not require specific atmospheric conditions to be present...just a link on the front page.
Anything else?
You're a VB programmer, aren't you?
As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible -W.B.
Oh what a sad day it was when I (being a cable monkey) was asked by the supreme programmer to get his computer back up. When I told him the his HD was dead, he looked at me with shock, as he explained that the last months worth of his so valuable work was on his disk. I asked him if he backed it up anywhere. He said no. He then asked me if we backed it up. I said no, we don't do that for local drives. We sent the drive off to see if anyhing could be recovered. Nope, big waste of time. Almost like his own little tornado in his PC. Hope it doesn't happen to you.
I'm only human!
5 minutes later -
HR: "Hi, Stratjakt? This is Mindy in Human Resources, We've outsourced the programming department to a company in Bangalore. Your replacement, Raj, will be calling you today to discuss transferring over all your existing projects. Thanks for all your hard work-"
Kind of offtopic but maybe funny if you haven't heard them 495,954 times...
You might be a redneck if:
You've been on TV more than 5 times describing the sound of a tornado
A tornado hits your neighborhood and does a $100,000 worth of improvement.
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You should have posted a link to the ISP's website.
Then we could've kicked a dog while it was down.
http://jesus.everdense.com/
This was from a mazazine for managers, after all. Now there's some good news that pointy-haired bosses can understand!
Did anyone else read "Kroll OnTrack" as "Troll OnKrack"?
Wait, did anyone else even read the article?
Oh, never mind.
There are only 10 types of people: those who understand decimal, those who don't, and, uh, 8 other types I forget.