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I'm sure you've thought of this, but now that you're up and running, isn't it possible to buy/hire a pump, run it off the electricity from the already running generators, and pump it up from street level instead, instead of walking up stairs with buckets?
The pump is underwater.
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Are there any safety issues associated with hauling a bucket of diesel up a staircase? I know it's not as volatile as gasoline but it's still not exactly the most fire-safe substance. Are they literally 5-gallon pails, or are they sealed containers?
Are there any safety issues associated with hauling a bucket of diesel up a staircase? It's flammable and slippery. Wear boots, and I suggest this is a good day to quit smoking. I know it's not as volatile as gasoline but it's still not exactly the most fire-safe substance. Are they literally 5-gallon pails, or are they sealed containers? They are open buckets we store the cleaning supplies for the fish tank in. And…
Diesel is extremely dangerous stuff. I nearly blew myself up a few years ago by not cleaning out a diesel tank with detergent properly that I was welding. Diesel residue vapourised and went boom. Fortunately there wasn't enough in it to create a large explosion but it required new underpants.
To add to that, my only car accident was due to having diesel on my shoes. My foot slipped off the brake and I rear ended some poor guy.
"Trello is in the process of being moved to Amazon AWS where it will not be affected by further data center issues." I guess that's called the power of positive thinking?
"Trello is in the process of being moved to Amazon AWS where it will not be affected by further data center issues." I guess that's called the power of positive thinking?
Oh, the irony. Interesting they didn't move to Azure though.
Did they move to AWS to ensure that their services go down more efficiently next time there's a hint of a natural disaster?
/me knocks on wood
Having the cloud as your back up makes a lot of sense but if everyone did it could it cope with the additional demand? Sure the AWS infrastructure is massive but I'm guessing the load that would be dumped on it if a significant chunk of New York's web hosting was suddenly moved across would be massive.
Did they move to AWS to ensure that their services go down more efficiently next time there's a hint of a natural disaster?
You do know that AWS did not go down during Sandy, right? /me knocks on wood
There's a little bit more information in the last status post, plus a picture of Fog Creek cofounder Michael Pryor hauling 5-gallon jugs of diesel up 17 flights of stairs. (We have other employees down there, too, and I know Stack Exchange's NYC employees were excited to help out, so they're probably there by now, too.) http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/diesel-bucket-brigade-mai...
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Are there any safety issues associated with hauling a bucket of diesel up a staircase? It's flammable and slippery. Wear boots, and I suggest this is a good day to quit smoking. I know it's not as volatile as gasoline but it's still not exactly the most fire-safe substance. Are they literally 5-gallon pails, or are they sealed containers? They are open buckets we store the cleaning supplies for the fish tank in. And…
A million times this. Diesel is extremely dangerous stuff. I nearly blew myself up a few years ago by not cleaning out a diesel tank with detergent properly that I was welding. Diesel residue vapourised and went boom. Fortunately there wasn't enough in it to create a large explosion but it required new underpants. To add to that, my only car accident was due to having diesel on my shoes. My foot slipped off the brake…