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« on: February 21, 2004, 04:30:07 PM » |
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This is going to sound like a dumb question and it probably is but does Lunar Pages offer tours of there data center? i toured Bloomberg Internationals data center and was pretty impressed, was wondering if Lunar pages offered the same thing. and maybe t-shirts like, "I survived the Lunar Pages Data Center Tour 2004" HA!
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« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2004, 06:14:57 AM » |
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that would be fun. I wouldn't think they do.
I wonder what the datacenters look like. Is it just a few racks with servers and power supllies nicly stacked (or in a mess)? Or is there like one whole rack for every server?
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« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2004, 07:38:54 AM » |
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depending on the size of the data center, its just rows and rows of rack servers and if they are good there is a schemetic for the wiring and all the cables are labeled so you know where everything goes, you will notice one thing though, everything is as neat as a pin. it has to be so when there is a problem everything is laid out so they know where to start. makes trouble shooting that much easier. i have seen server rooms where it just looks like a bowl of spahgetti, nothing is labeled and you have no clue what cable goes to where not good work at all.
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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2004, 08:38:57 AM » |
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I get hyper in data centers (and nice big burly storages...). I think I shouldn't go if LP does have a tour of their data center.  |
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« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2004, 08:45:11 AM » |
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here is an obscure reference that only a person in a data center would know about, i want to see if any of the guys that work in lunar pages data center have ever encountered this problem, its called " Zinc Whiskers" no more detail then that, i just want to see if any of the lunar pages folks know what i am talking about. HCBlue: rack servers are pretty small, you might be dissapointed, they are cool just the same. i would want to see my server, where my web site is, just so i could give it a pat and say dont ever fail... |
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« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2004, 05:40:39 AM » |
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but you pat it to hard and knock it out of the rack and destroy all the websites on it :twisted: oh well aslong as it isnt galaxy im ok  |
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« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2004, 06:48:09 AM » |
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I would love to see my servers too. It may be fun to see the thing running my websites. I would also like to see the entire support center.
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« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2004, 08:24:53 AM » |
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It would be nice if they flew as all in too on their private LP jet.  |
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« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2004, 08:26:01 AM » |
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Hey, I second that.  |
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« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2004, 08:28:45 AM » |
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oh well aslong as it isnt galaxy im ok Here is a pic of the galaxy server I took last visit....  |
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« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2004, 09:03:01 AM » |
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That looks like the patch closets at my house  |
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« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2004, 02:28:35 PM » |
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oh well aslong as it isnt galaxy im ok Here is a pic of the galaxy server I took last visit.... i would hate to troubleshoot that network! |
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« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2004, 10:00:24 PM » |
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Heh. That'd be nice but I don't think I would even get a tour when I'm gonna go there this summer  (besides a tour of a data center would be most likely undoable as they often have door mechanism that will only allow one person at a time through a series of door (to limit exposure risks to consummer data. At least it was like that in a data center a friend of mine was working at. I never knew they were so...safe. One thing. Cover yourself. It's damn cold in there. Definitely a place to spend your summers in |
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« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2004, 01:22:15 AM » |
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the one and only i saw, which i mentioned earlier was pretty impressive and the thing was, as big at the data center was, they where making it bigger. all sun microsystem servers each rack of servers had its own drawing telling you which cables went to where and what servers connected to what, as for the Zinc whiskers thing. thats when a stray, tiny strand of metal gets loose from somewhere and lands on a circuit, frying it. in the process of frying the circuit the tiny strand of metal disapears leaving you with no evidence of why that circuit failed. Takes weeks to figure the how and why.
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« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2004, 01:04:54 PM » |
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Definitely a place to spend your summers in All be it of mee to say but prepositions are not things to end sentances with. I saw the data center at my dad's office. They are a huge internantional country and allserver operationbs are sent via mutliple t3's (per remote location) to them. The data center is HUGE. It is also cool that the floor tiles come up. |
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