Protecting your eggs
Did we suggest that having several servers was serious? We lied. The place where our servers live, the data center, also has several redundancies in place. Extra network lines, separate power sources, multiple generators, air conditioning and ventilation, everything a server can require.
Yet, some have joked that a common backhoe is the natural enemy of the Internet. There is more truth to that statement than its apparent lack of gravitas might suggest. Data centers are geographically insecure. Inclement weather, natural disasters, disrupted backbones, power outages, and of course, accidentally damaged trunk lines (from an errant backhoe?), and simple human-error can all remove a data center from the grid. When a data center ...
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