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It's really cool that Maciej is so open about his setup. This is especially true given how opinionated people are about these sorts of operations. For example:

I'm hoping the Hurricane Electric facility he mentions is Fremont 2. The Fremont 1 facility has been plagued with power and packet loss issues over the last year (ask your friends with Linodes in Fremont all about it ;)

It also seems a shame to put both of the deployments so close together. Proximity to your machines is a non-issue with a decent colo provider: his example of driving to Vegas every time a drive fails assumes that the provider would be unable or unwilling to sell him 20 minutes of remote hands. Spend a little extra money up front for out-of-band access to your infrastructure and leverage the provider for the physical stuff!

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>Spend a little extra money up front for out-of-band access to your infrastructure and leverage the provider for the physical stuff!

This /sounds/ like a good idea until the reality of trying to get someone random to fix an actual hardware problem over the phone sets in.

It only takes one idiot pulling the wrong drive once.

(to be clear, spend the money on oob management, too. Serial consoles are essential if you want to have a hope of knowing why that server rebooted last night. And you need to be able to monitor your power draw; it really doesn't cost that much more to spring for the PDU that can monitor and switch the outlets.)

I was half thinking of setting up colo in Hawaii specifically to cause people to have to make work-covered travel plans to there to "fix things". The official justification would be to be under US law and have lower latency access to Asia (although I think Seattle to North Asia is about the same as HNL to North Asia, and certainly cheaper/better bandwidth).

The problem is power is even more expensive there than in SF.

Is Maciej still hellbanned from HN?

No, he was only banned for a few hours, but he (understandably) stopped posting here afterwards.

He was banned for voting from months or perhaps years.

Edit: "for" -> "from"

Why was that? and the hell bane.

What? Huh? Really? Why? What could that possibly have accomplished?

Never mind. Who cares.

I missed out on the whole story, what happened?

He called Sebastian Marshall "a prolix douchebag" in a comment, got hellbanned for it and promptly left when he realized it. That's pretty much the story. Evidently the hellban was lifted a little later (albeit not the ban on voting?), but he'd already gone by that point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=idlewords

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2984932

Basically, he was too mean in a comment thread. The submissions on HN typically run media hot (X is doomed, Y is for idiots, Z is braindead) while the comments run media cold. He got the two mixed up, and was banned.

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