Michael Barnett and friends, who famously stuck it out in New Orleans to blog and run live video feed (thanks, I might add, to the Mises Institute’s server), had a scare last night that it would be the last day for fuel to run their generators. Early this morning they shut down. But, magnificently and dramatically, more fuel came this morning and their entire media apparatus is up and running again. For many days, this one was the one reliable link New Orleans had to the outside world. Heroes all! Here it is: http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/
Source link: http://blog.mises.org/4045/they-are-back/
They are back!
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Barnett is awesome. I applaud what he is doing, and the inadvertent advertising the predicament will bring to the mises institute. Also, his note to Jesse Jackson made my day.
One question (NOT intended to detract from what he is doing, or his heroics): why has his company not backed up and relocated to a different data center? Being an ignorant outsider, it seems a DR plan could have saved everyone involved a lot of trouble.
They are moving stuff elsewhere. But their available bandwidth is (or was; sounds like they’re getting back up now) severely restricted, and they have a huge amount of data to move (in a reply on his blog, Michael claims DirectNIC accounts for 2% of the Internet)
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