Building a Data Center In 60 Days

miller60 writes "The facilities team at Australia's Pipe Networks is down to the wire in its bid to complete a data center in 60 days. And in an era when many major data-center projects are shrouded in secrecy, these guys are putting the entire effort online, with daily updates and photos on the company blog, a live webcam inside the facility, a countdown timer, and a punch-list of key tasks left to finish. Their goal is to complete the job by Friday morning eastern US time."

Comments

Re:pipenetworks.com isn't loading for me

[morgan_greywolf]

Either pipenetworks.com has been /.'d or their 'network of pipes' needs a little visit from RotoRooter. ;-)

And if one of those pipes is the stink pipe, what does that make Slashdot? ;)

Re:slashdotted an interconnect???

[Professor_UNIX]

I think you're vastly overestimating the power of the Slashdot effect anymore. It's more likely they're just using some crappy default install on an underpowered box that hasn't had its Apache settings tweaked. The pages are dynamic and may be fed out of some database-driven content management system probably using MySQL which hasn't been tweaked either. Either that or they got Dugg in which case they're fukked. Digg has a ton more active users than Slashdot can ever hope for, which is sad considering they suck donkey balls and their comment threading was designed by a five year old who can't comprehend nesting comments more than 2 deep.