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Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Re: Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Post by oooyay »

throw0101c wrote: post #3

Seems like more testing is in order: > Upon the outage, both banks immediately activated IT disaster recovery and business continuity plans. > "However," according to Tan, "both banks encountered technical issues which prevented them from fully recovering their affected systems at their respective backup datacenters – DBS due to a network misconfiguration and Citibank due to connectivity issues." Perhaps regularly fl…

Kind of a spicy opinion as a SRE, but if your disaster recovery strategy isn't part of your operational strategy then it's not actually a strategy. It's a moonshot in the face of failure.

Re: Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Post by BirAdam »

dan_can_code wrote: post #16

I wonder what the cost of a datacenter within Singapore is? The cost per sq/m in that country, which is the most expensive in the world, must be huge.

Well, considering you’d have most of the needed utilities already connected and present, a large population of well educated people, and extremely high bandwidth connections in close proximity, it’s probably only slightly higher than elsewhere.

Re: Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Post by latchkey »

dan_can_code wrote: post #16

I wonder what the cost of a datacenter within Singapore is? The cost per sq/m in that country, which is the most expensive in the world, must be huge.

I've run equipment in dc's in multiple places in the US, Germany, and Singapore. By far, the most expensive was Singapore.

Re: Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Post by user3939382 »

dylan604 wrote: post #7
throw0101c wrote: post #3

Seems like more testing is in order: > Upon the outage, both banks immediately activated IT disaster recovery and business continuity plans. > "However," according to Tan, "both banks encountered technical issues which prevented them from fully recovering their affected systems at their respective backup datacenters – DBS due to a network misconfiguration and Citibank due to connectivity issues." Perhaps regularly fl…

"No recovery plan is worth anything if it is not tested regularly." "An untested recovery plan is worth less than the paper on which it is printed." I'm sure there are many other versions of the quote

If you haven’t tested your backup you don’t have one.

Re: Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Post by eli »

someplaceguy wrote: post #13
CyberDildonics wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that those transactions don't count until they get on the main chain and no one needs to send 1000 transactions of single penny, then have the exact same problems as everyone else when trying to get that to actually be usable.

> those transactions don't count They don't? Then surely you wouldn't mind sending me a few bitcoins over a lightning channel? Pretty please? > no one needs to send 1000 transactions of single penny There is no such "single penny" limit. > then have the exact same problems as everyone else What problems?

I sent them over but I used a third layer network (a spreadsheet on my desktop)

Re: Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Post by [deleted] »

eli wrote: post #25
someplaceguy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> those transactions don't count They don't? Then surely you wouldn't mind sending me a few bitcoins over a lightning channel? Pretty please? > no one needs to send 1000 transactions of single penny There is no such "single penny" limit. > then have the exact same problems as everyone else What problems?

I sent them over but I used a third layer network (a spreadsheet on my desktop)

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Post by ToucanLoucan »

xyst wrote: post #8

Blaming contractors/subcontractors is so hot right now. Cloudflare. Equinix. No accountability.

Does this surprise you? What is a corporation if not a legal entity designed to launder responsibility?

Have a problem with a service and you find out the company you bought from subcontracts to an LLC you've never heard of which in turn subcontracts to four other LLCs one of which is actually liable but only if you can figure out which one, and oh by the way yours has two employees and it's headquarters is a UPS Store box, good fucking luck.

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Post by Scoundreller »

latchkey wrote: post #23
dan_can_code wrote: post #16

I wonder what the cost of a datacenter within Singapore is? The cost per sq/m in that country, which is the most expensive in the world, must be huge.

I've run equipment in dc's in multiple places in the US, Germany, and Singapore. By far, the most expensive was Singapore.

Is it because it costs the operator a lot to run one or because they can charge a lot?

(I guess over time those should converge, but sometimes takes a while or doesn’t)

Re: Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Post by [deleted] »

eli wrote: post #25
someplaceguy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> those transactions don't count They don't? Then surely you wouldn't mind sending me a few bitcoins over a lightning channel? Pretty please? > no one needs to send 1000 transactions of single penny There is no such "single penny" limit. > then have the exact same problems as everyone else What problems?

I sent them over but I used a third layer network (a spreadsheet on my desktop)

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