Hello again.
I just spoke to hubby, who had a student job at a datacenter and got some enlightenment about what’s gonna happen in case of a fire. And don’t forget that was in the earliest nineties and IT wasn’t as advanced as it is today.
According to hubby a fire like that at OVH couldn’t have happened at all. Because …
- Open flames and smoking were already forbidden back then
- In case of a fire the server room, all doors would close automatically and fill up with a fire asphyxiating gas and extinguish all flames inside of a minute. In case you weren’t able to leave in time, ample amounts of gasmasks were to be found everywhere
- Fire extinguishers were stationed everywhere, from the offices via the corridors and administrative terminal rooms to the kitchen and toilets
- No data would be lost! Ever! Every night a truckload of media (at the time 256 MB datasettes) would leave the datacentre and be stored in a remote nuke-proof facility, and return another set of datasettes to be put back into the system. All this happened fully automatized, with sci-fi robot arms n stuff. No human interaction was needed or even possible, in order to avoid sabotage and industrial espionage
- every employee of the datacenter was trained at security protocol. Even a cheapo student jobber like hubby. He was drilled about how to leave the premises as fast and save as possible and where to join the group outside of the compound
- Nowadays all the computer equipment is made of flame retardent material! So a disgruntled employee/wannabe arsonist wouldn’t be able to start a fire in the first place
Let’s not forget, when hubby – who was years from becoming my hubby – was jobbing there it was the stone age of computing. I guess PCs just made the jump from Intel 286 to 386 processors and we didn’t even had one ourselves but poor me had to type everything for uni on a typewriter. 😦 Can you believe that shit?
Can it be the physical data security today is worse than back then?
Something’s definately smelling fishy with OVH’s story.
Thar She Blows! 
Hi Orca! I wonder if you knew an easy way to back up my wordpress site? I am totally confused, and reading this put the Fear into me!
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Hi, sorry, no. I know, me always bragging about my dozens of GNU/Linux computers n shit, may come across like a techie but I am sooo not. 😦 I guess some of my readers may know the answer since many of them are bloggers, too.
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Ah, thanks for replying! I just can’t work out how to do it and the tech boys aren’t replying!
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Oh, hang on, young lady. A minute please. Why don’t we just DuckDuck the question and finding help that way? Who needs tech boys? They can go and have sex with themselves.
https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-backups/
https://elementor.com/blog/backup-wordpress/
https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/backup/
https://wpastra.com/back-up-wordpress/
… and thousands more results to be found on the interwebz.
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I did look, but it makes no sense – as far as my old brain can make out, there are no plug ins with the “professional” level account, so no back up unless you pay for the next type up. I go round in circles confused…
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THank you for trying, Im afraid I have no chance of being able to work out filezilla..Im just too technically dumb…
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Just call me a genius computer person…I did it…! Thanks!
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Ok genius,what did you do? Bought professional account or figgered out something cleverer?
Wotz Filezilla?
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Flattery will get you nowhere young lady! 😁 I downloaded a free program that lets you import and export files….then gave up….and got professional for a month with a coupon…Im relieved!
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Very clever I gotta say!
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Now you are just being kind!🌷🌷🌷
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Can’t help it, I’m fukin nice by nature. And oh so soft and cuddly. =^.^=
… and yet so very very humble!!!
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There is practically no point at all in being humble, darling. None. Nice! Soft and cuddly…killer combination!
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