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[m1ne]

What country would that be? UK? Australia?

I am in the UK, servers are spread throughout Europe. There has never been severe wind or water damage here.

 

[m1ne]

Every country has a type of disaster it is prone to. Earthquakes, typhoons/hurricanes, high winds, flooding, tornadoes (and some of them multiple disasters that can effect it). You plan for the WORST case and hope for the best.

The last time a natural "disaster" that did more than knock over a tree here was in 1884. Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, just doesn't happen here.

 

[Lisa]

There has never been severe wind or water damage here.

Might want to tell that to the people who live in Cornwall.


Think you'll find we get floods quite a lot in the UK

And we had a small earthquake in Derbyshire just a couple of months ago... granted it only knocked down one house.. but still.. it was an earthquake!

 

[m1ne]

Might want to tell that to the people who live in Cornwall.

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Think you'll find we get floods quite a lot in the UK

I know, I live 1 hour from Cornwall lol. That's hardly gonna tear down buildings, and it probably didn't even take out the power.
What I meant was that we don't get it on the same scale as the US. The picture you posted is about as bad as it gets here, not even a "disaster".

 

[Lisa]

I know, I live 1 hour from Cornwall lol. That's hardly gonna tear down buildings, and it probably didn't even take out the power.

Yeah but you said we don't get floods and severe winds - we do... we really do. Lots of flooding over the last couple of years has knocked out power - not just in cornwall but in a lot of other places.

 

[Jake B.]

I know, I live 1 hour from Cornwall lol. That's hardly gonna tear down buildings, and it probably didn't even take out the power.
What I meant was that we don't get it on the same scale as the US. The picture you posted is about as bad as it gets here, not even a "disaster".

Not going to get far as a host if you don't have a contingency plan just because 'it probably won't happen'

 

[m1ne]

Yeah but you said we don't get floods and severe winds - we do... we really do. Lots of flooding over the last couple of years has knocked out power - not just in cornwall but in a lot of other places.

Edited my post above. It usually makes the news when something like that happens, and I've only seen it once in about the last 5 years.

 

[m1ne]

Not going to get far as a host if you don't have a contingency plan just because 'it probably won't happen'

I have already taken the advice given to me.

 

[TJA]

and I've only seen it once in about the last 5 years.

Really? you must live a sheltered life then

 

[m1ne]

Really? you must live a sheltered life then

I won't deny that lol, but I do read the news. What we consider bad weather would be hilarious to Americans.

 

[TJA]

What we consider bad weather would be hilarious to Americans.

Yeah but we handle bad weather like a bunch of idiots, we get a fine dusting of snow and the country comes to a standstill lol

 

[m1ne]

Yeah but we handle bad weather like a bunch of idiots, we get a fine dusting of snow and the country comes to a standstill lol

Exactly, we don't get weather that rips buildings apart, so natural disasters didn't spring to mind when thinking of backup options.

 

[Lisa]

Exactly, we don't get weather that rips buildings apart, so natural disasters didn't spring to mind when thinking of backup options.

Yeah, but the point is the UK comes to a standstill at a couple of millimetres of snow... the amount of powercuts we get in what the US would probably term "a slight breeze" is insane - you need to keep that in mind for your datacentres. Just because it's not US-standard bad weather doesn't mean you won't have issues in the UK.

 

[Bionic Rooster]

I was looking for an alternative, so this has been most informative.

Glad to help, now go nitpick elsewhere.

Not a very good business attitude towards prospective customers.

 

[Bionic Rooster]

Not going to get far as a host if you don't have a contingency plan just because 'it probably won't happen'

Not doing so well with customer relations either.

 

[WSWD]

Every country has a type of disaster it is prone to. Earthquakes, typhoons/hurricanes, high winds, flooding, tornadoes (and some of them multiple disasters that can effect it). You plan for the WORST case and hope for the best.

And as I mentioned, fiber cuts. Those seem to happen more and more these days, and can happen anywhere. Though I guess those wouldn't qualify as natural disasters. LOL!!

 

[m1ne]

Not a very good business attitude towards prospective customers.

You had no intention of being a customer, you just wanted to argue with someone and have some fun. Very transparent.

 

[Bionic Rooster]

You had no intention of being a customer, you just wanted to argue with someone and have some fun. Very transparent.

I would not have inquired were I not interested. It's called fact finding, not arguing. Ask anyone here who know me, I don't normally get involved in discussions that don't interest me. And having fun at someone else's expense is not a pass time of mine.
So yeah, don't bother replying and trying to drag your poor me, I'm being picked on tail any further.
You already falsely accused one person of stalking you

 

[TJA]

Ask anyone here who know me

I will confirm BR's previous post.

 

[TPerry]

And as I mentioned, fiber cuts. Those seem to happen more and more these days, and can happen anywhere. Though I guess those wouldn't qualify as natural disasters. LOL!!

Nope... not natural, but just as bad. And I have seen them take up to a day to repair depending on how big of a cable. A maintenance company cut the main one between our town and our uplink several years ago - and there was no redundant routes - so EVERYTHING was down. Telephone service, internet, cell phones.