The hurricane-proof data center

Domain registrar directNIC is based in New Orleans. They are still online, thanks to a dedicated crew of staffers who stayed behind to tend their data center on the 11th story of a downtown office building.

One of the staffers, "Interdictor," has been blogging life in a high rise in a city with 15-foot flood waters, no electricity, no sanitary services and a dwindling supply of diesel fuel for the generators:

... I have a lot of people telling us to abandon ship and get out. Guys, that's not gonna happen. I'll eat roaches and drink the funky Quarter sludge in the gutters of Bourbon Street long before I abandon my city. I've got resources and will and so does my team, and we're here until this is over. ...

Later, he writes:

... I keep being told that CNN and the Slate reported our "moods" as something other than upbeat. The city is falling apart, no doubt. The looting is rampant. Just take a look at the cam and you'll see them breaking into that hotel and taking everything. The water is still creeping in. But you know what? My team's mood is not negative. We're focused. We've got things that need doing and we're gonna get them done. That's all there is to it. We need diesel. We'll find some. We have people depending on us and we are not going to let them down. That's all there is to it. ...

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