ISP Recovers in 72 Hours After Leveling by Tornado 258
aldheorte writes "Amazing story of how an ISP in Jackson, TN, whose main facility was completely leveled by a tornado, recovered in 72 hours. The story is a great recounting of how they executed their disaster recovery plan, what they found they had left out of that plan, data recovery from destroyed hard drives, and perhaps the best argument ever for offsite backups. (Not affiliated with the ISP in question)"
Heh (Score:4, Funny)
It will be a damn shame... (Score:3, Funny)
That's fricking awesome (Score:5, Funny)
"99.18% for our service, and 96.2% for our building."
Poor tech support (Score:5, Funny)
"Are you guys down again? You're down more than you're up! I'm going to find another service... etc..."
"Ma'am our facilities have been entirely leveled by a tornado, we'll be back up in 72 hours."
"72 HOURS?! I have photos of my grandchildren I have to mail! Worst ISP ever! Let me speak to your supervisor!"
"Ma'am our supervisor was also leveled by the tornado."
*click*
Not that I work tech support for an ISP and am bitter...
Elephant Insurance (Score:5, Funny)
And then gets slashdotted (Score:2, Funny)
Because of a tornado... (Score:4, Funny)
Well that's what you casemodders get for installing twenty overpowered cooling fans in every one of your 1000 servers!
Tornad'oh! (Score:5, Funny)
"Bring me the router of the wicked switch of the Qwest!"
Although, I am starting to wonder. Has anyone checked to see if this ISP has a record of resisting RIAA subpeonas? Perhaps the RIAA levelled it after acquiring cloudbuster [geocities.com] equipment.
72 Hours to recover from tornado obliteration . . (Score:2, Funny)
Before someone else says it... (Score:5, Funny)
Screw remote backup.... (Score:2, Funny)
/. Effect (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Welcome ! (Score:3, Funny)
+1 Informative?!?
Does that mean that some moderator actually believes that we have, indeed, been conquered by twisters?
Re:Before someone else says it... (Score:5, Funny)
No, it runs
-3 Stupid.
Re:Amazing is an innapropriate adjective (Score:5, Funny)
But, as a programmer, I just dont care.
When I was a sophomore, working on my electrical engineering degree, I worked for a small, network-centric company that employed what seemed to be an abnormal number of snooty programmers and technical writers. Maybe it wasn't so abnormal.
Me: "Hi, IT support."
Stratjakt: "Hey, I know you're just a high-school educated 'IT person', but you need to get one of your cable monkeys up here and find out why I can't see the network!"
Me:: "OK, but let's check a couple of things quickly before I dispatch a technician. It may save some time."
Stratjakt: "Hey, I'm a programmer! I just don't care!"
Me: "I understand...I realize that my mundane existance doesn't have the exhilaration and exitedness of the thrilling, edge-of-your-seat world of a computer programmer, but there are just a few simple things that we could do to resolve this problem that will be faster than you waiting for a technician."
Stratjakt: "I just don't care."
Me: "No problem, I'll dispatch a technican."
An hour later...
Technician: "Stratjakt is all fixed up. I plugged his network cable back into the jack."
New BOFH Excuse... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:However... (Score:5, Funny)
But... (Score:5, Funny)
The slashdot effect differs from a tornado in a few subtle ways:
1) You can't see it coming (unless you pay money to be a subscriber)
2) It doesn't hurt anything, except for webservers, the occasional OC line lit up like New Year's Eve, spammers, and the odd *IAA executive.
3) A tornado doesn't typically smell like armpits, cheetos, empty 64oz soda cups, burning plastic, your parent's basement and/or too much cologne for that first date.
4) It travels at the speed of light, a lot quicker than a tornado.
5) Does not require specific atmospheric conditions to be present...just a link on the front page.
Anything else?
Re:Amazing is an innapropriate adjective (Score:3, Funny)
Re:But... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:72 hours thats pretty bad (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Amazing is an innapropriate adjective (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Amazing is an innapropriate adjective (Score:2, Funny)
5 minutes later -
HR: "Hi, Stratjakt? This is Mindy in Human Resources, We've outsourced the programming department to a company in Bangalore. Your replacement, Raj, will be calling you today to discuss transferring over all your existing projects. Thanks for all your hard work-"
Redneck tornado jokes... (Score:2, Funny)
You might be a redneck if:
You've been on TV more than 5 times describing the sound of a tornado
A tornado hits your neighborhood and does a $100,000 worth of improvement.
Hmmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Then we could've kicked a dog while it was down.
Re:But... (Score:3, Funny)
From the article... (Score:3, Funny)
This was from a mazazine for managers, after all. Now there's some good news that pointy-haired bosses can understand!
Nice name for data recovery company... (Score:3, Funny)
Wait, did anyone else even read the article?
Oh, never mind.