[Boatanchors] ePay New Policies

[jeremy-ca]

Several server facilities scattered around the country plus whatever they 
have elsewhere. Locations are supposed to be a secret.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "barry tuttleman" <btuttleman at worldnet.att.net>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] ePay New Policies


> as far as minimal assets, i think that's incorrect; i recycle for a
> licensed CISCO server facility here and until i actually entered the
> facility (well over 1000+ racked servers and the thousands of pieces
> that go along w/ them) and saw the huge amount of work and maintenance
> that goes along w/ such an operation i had no idea of the extent of
> such an operation.
>
> providing filtered, clean air for this late-model building alone is an
> immense job; hundreds of filters are changed out every 15 to 30 days
> alone; i won't bore you with the amount of large late model HD's that
> eat it constantly, along w/ other boards and pieces.  and backing up
> such a large amount of data is simply doubling the amount of storage
> space and work.
>
> eBay HAS to have an extremely large server facility to keep such a
> large online operation working smoothly - maybe not a lot of personnel,
> but a large amount of hardware, software, maintenance & upkeep.
>
> FWIW,
> barry
> carson city nv