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See where the Internet lives

Posted: Monday, August 28, 2006 11:05 PM by Will Femia
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It's a video tour of a massive Web storage facility.  When they talk about "soft targets" for terrorism, this is the kind of place that comes to my mind first.  I know the point of a "net" is that it's distributed, but still, there are hubs in the system that would turn the country upside down if anything ever happened.  (Sounds like they're prepared though.)

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OH...MY...GOD!Sorry for shouting, but that is really mind-boggling. Are there others, or is this the only one? My point being there should be maybe a "back up" system somewhere else. It make sme nervous to think that the whole net is in just one place.  

Toni, Syracuse, NY (Sent Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:11 PM)

Toni, there are other big hubs and there are a lot of not-so-big hubs and tiny servers that make up the whole Web.  But I agree there are a lot of eggs in that basket.

Will Femia (Sent Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:27 AM)

I work in a data center like that, though a little smaller.  They did get the main points right about the building.

Kyle Scott, Seattle, Wash (Sent Friday, September 01, 2006 6:58 AM)

Many times, you will become taken aback by the excessive amount of  trip sources at hand.

travel preparation (Sent Friday, September 21, 2007 11:59 AM)



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