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Re: Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline

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You can still access Wells Fargo Online via the direct link: https://connect.secure.wellsfargo.com/auth/login/present?ori...

Confirmed - was able to log in. Some account info is still there, though my mortgage is unavailable. Maybe they'll just lose it?

Re: Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Local fire Department commented on their facebook page [1] that dust from construction triggered the fire suppression system and not a fire. [1] https://www.facebook.com/LakeJoFD

The next worst thing for electronics after fire - water! Or are there non liquid fire suppression systems such as pulling all the oxygen out of a room (if there aren't any people in it)?

Yes water isn't typically used in datacenters, halon gas can be used for example. But the noise of the nozzles releasing the gas can actually damage disk drives.

Re: Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline

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Apparently there was a fire in a Datacenter - theres a thread on /r/sysadmin by an insider. https://np.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ao4g2y/wells_fargo...

Why didn't it failover to their backup datacenter in another geo?

right? DRBC trial by fire, I guess (pardon the pun).

Re: Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Local fire Department commented on their facebook page [1] that dust from construction triggered the fire suppression system and not a fire. [1] https://www.facebook.com/LakeJoFD

The next worst thing for electronics after fire - water! Or are there non liquid fire suppression systems such as pulling all the oxygen out of a room (if there aren't any people in it)?

are there non liquid fire suppression systems such as pulling all the oxygen out of a room

Yes. One place I worked (not a tech company, but with tons of electronics), when the fire alarms went off we had xx seconds (I don't remember the number) to get out of the building before something called Intergen was vented into the room to somehow suck all of the oxygen out, and if we were still inside we'd be dead.

It must be pretty serious stuff, because we'd have evacuation drills twice a year.

Re: Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline

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Bullish on bitcoin b/c of its highly resilient characteristics. Might not process as many transactions per second and it might pollute more than the average bank, but sure as hell dont need to worry about a natural disaster or freak incident single handedly taking out the entire network.

Re: Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The next worst thing for electronics after fire - water! Or are there non liquid fire suppression systems such as pulling all the oxygen out of a room (if there aren't any people in it)?

Yes water isn't typically used in datacenters, halon gas can be used for example. But the noise of the nozzles releasing the gas can actually damage disk drives.

There's a nozzle for that :) - http://www.fire-protection.com.au/news/hush-nozzle

From what I understand, using water/dry pipe isn't unheard of. Some prefer it over Halon - https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2014/03/26/we-must-protect-thi... .

Re: Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline

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Bullish on bitcoin b/c of its highly resilient characteristics. Might not process as many transactions per second and it might pollute more than the average bank, but sure as hell dont need to worry about a natural disaster or freak incident single handedly taking out the entire network.

I’d wager that WF is still processing a lot more transactions than Bitcoin is even during this outage.
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