Bryan on CNN
Geez, What Happened?
Ok, so you may not know, all my sites are running from my data center at home. Yes, I do have a rack of servers I maintain at home. So, when the weird ass snow storm hit my area, the power went down and went down hard. I lost power on Saturday and just got it back. That’s three plus days. Obviously my UPS’s doesn’t last that long and all my sites, including this one, went down.
So, why didn’t I just redirect to my backups at EC2?
The simple answer is that I have a family and had to evacuate them to safety since without electricity, I have no running water. I also got rid of my other remote servers to save some money. Guess the savings weren’t worth it. They’re all coming back.
