why would anyone host in south florida?
 

i mean what the fuck? is it just me or do you have to be a total nOOb to think that hosting in hurricane alley is good for business?

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Cheaper prices I guess.

there's a huge modeling site who goes dark a coupla times a year based in ft. lauderdale.
if you have to host there, get a fuck backup server somewhere else.

It depends on where they are physically located - if they are in the Naps of America (which is where mine are) the backups never hiccuped once and the generators have deisel trucks sitting next to the them with 45 days worth of fuel and another 80 days on the way - and it houses the 24 major fiber bandwidth suppliers in the nation - so its not going down. Its the 5th Tier-1 point in the world.

Maybe it's just cheaper.

that site is still down

no its up well at least most of the girls sites are up

Well every place has it's problems... The north east has cold/snow. Florida, hurricanes, Mid-west tornadoes, and west coast earth quakes. But it's all about being prepared for the disasters.

Cold and snow are hardly disasters :)

We do get the occasional ice storm which takes out power lines, but that's mostly Upstate.

Best,
Sam