Not so long winded... maybe not even long winded enough considering the importance of the topic.
I'm an IT director by trade and I can tell you for sure, if what just happened to the Steam network happened to one of the networks I managed... I'd have been out of a job as soon as the network was back up... if not sooner. Even the little two box gamming network I run for my Half-Life servers has UPS backup as does my cable box, routers and switches. I can pop my main breaker and my gamming setup won't miss a beat. I would still like to know why I was unable to play sp Half-Life 2 and sp Half-Life just because the Steam network was down. There shouldn't be any need for authentication of a registered single player game. -----Original Message----- From: [GS]Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 4:54 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] Post-outage thoughts ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Hatsiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> Unfortunately things happen - > 9/11, New Orleans, you name it - so no single location in a world is > good enough for Steam. Yeah but even internic had power after Katrina hit.They where underwater in their parking garage but the websites based out of there still had power,internet ect.It's a large investment called UPS power supply units.For whatever reason the datacenter,I'm thinking more like their home offices, didn't have backup generators.I host most of my servers out of theplanets datacenter and they have multiple backups.Like this listed from their site: DLLSTX2 (3) 500KVA Powerware UPS units, 90 batteries each 1-megawatt generator (2000 gallon tank) 1.5-megawatt generator (2200 gallon tank) DLLSTX4 (2) 500KVA Powerware UPS units, 90 batteries each 1.5-megawatt generator (2200 gallon tank) DLLSTX5 (6) 500KVA Powerware UPS units, 120 batteries each 3.5-megawatts of generating capacity DLLSTX6 (2) 750KVA MGE UPS units (expanding to 6 750 KVA UPS units) 2-megawatt generator (adding two more) And that's just one datacenter company.Of course those are all different buildings in the same town but one company.So if a power outtage hits it may not be able to run for weeks off those units but it would surely be able to power itself until the power company came out.But even the InterNic network was powered for weeks via deliveries of diesel fuel.So as long as you can get gas and keep the generators pumping you've got power. It really boggles my mind that something that is ,in my opinion, a backbone of the steam network would be powered out of one building.I figured they had it spread out from coast to coast and across several continents.But I can imagine they don't trust anyone with the servers that control user auth systems and I can see why.But damn.Have a master that updates the hard files one who bought what ect then simply use slaves that update from the master every 10 minutes or something with just the "oks" ect.Kinda like a dns server but for gaming auths.Anyways I've gotten long winded. -BeNt- http://www.gorillazsouth.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
