2009/12/2-26 [Science/Disaster] UID:53559 Activity:low | 12/2 So I am trying to convince my company to take disaster planning
more seriously. Does anyone have any hard numbers on how often
data centers fail? I mean blow up, burn down, flood, etc, with
total loss of all services for an extended period of time.
\_ hard numbers tend to be SEKRET. But check out Yahoo's recent
outage and UltraDNS' outage. Those were both pretty bad.
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2005/9/1-2 [Science/Disaster] UID:39413 Activity:nil | 9/1 Would you rather live in a city which has:
Earthquakes?
\_ Definitely. If it's strong enough to kill you, there's no question.
I don't like advance warning. Tornados/hurricanes have too much
anxiety attached.
\_ I agree. An earthquake only lasts for a few seconds (unless
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2004/11/11-12 [Science/Disaster] UID:34833 Activity:nil | 11/11 How come people in big crowded cities in Japan don't live in high-rise
buildings like those in Hong Kong? First I thought it's because of
earthquakes, but then they already know how to build high-rise hotels
and office buildings in those cities.
\_ 1) Earthquakes. Sure, Japanese engineers can build some amazingly
earthquake-resistant buildings, but those kinds of buildings are
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