[BlueOnyx:24784] Re: OT: severe weather / power at VIRTBIZ

[Larry Smith]

Sincere prayers for all in Texas going through this.
And cuddos to your and yours for helping employees
over and above a paycheck, with a place to stay when
they are displaced.

-- 
Larry Smith
lesmith at ecsis.net

On Thu February 18 2021 09:51, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:
> Hi Fellow BlueOnyxers
>
> As the official host datacenter of all things BlueOnyx, I'm fortunate to
> count many of you as customers.  Your support of VIRTBIZ helps us to
> continue the support for BlueOnyx. Accordingly, I occasionally like to
> update everyone here on our operations.
>
> You might have seen in the news that the US in general and specifically
> Texas (where we are located) has been enduring fairly extreme weather. 
> Extended sub-freezing temperatures with snow and ice are not conditions
> with which we are well accustomed or prepared for.      Personally, we
> were no longer able to stay in our home as the power was out for the
> better part of 2 days, causing our pipes to freeze so we no longer had
> operational plumbing.    We've moved (along with the cats) to the
> datacenter where things are warm and we have basic necessities such as
> sleeping quarters and hot showers.    Many of our staff have not been
> able to make it into work because roads have been impassable.
>
> At the same time, we've been taking in new customers who have found
> their offices to be without power or are otherwise unable to function so
> they have been moving their networks to our facility.   In most cases,
> they're coming with servers.   In other cases they're bringing in
> desktops and workstations as well so their staff can remote in and work
> from home.
>
> I wrote an update to our customers yesterday and will share it with you
> here if you're interested.
> https://www.virtbiz.com/virtbiz-and-the-weather-power-crisis/
>
> I'm mindful that we're not alone in going through some difficult
> times.   I'm thankful for the things that are going right, and, as a bit
> of fun, one of our cats is extremely interested in the operations of the
> datacenter and has been pacing up and down the rows of racks, stopping
> wherever he hears the beep of an alarm. That's helped us to send out
> some proactive alerts to customers that may have underlying hardware
> issues!    Our other cat is more interested in being a paperweight.
>
> Just thought I would share.   Pardon the interruption.