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Main on September 8th, 2009 by Pingdom
If you suddenly find yourself without an Internet connection, there’s a good chance that somewhere a team of construction workers just uttered a collective “uh-oh” because their backhoe dug up a telecom cable. Oops.
It turns out that this problem is so common that it is costing millions upon millions of dollars in repairs every year. Backhoes, drilling and digging are serious cable killers.
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Main on April 3rd, 2009 by Pingdom
We live in Sweden, a very organized country when it comes to things like infrastructure, electricity, etc. However, there are some countries that have a more “organic” approach to their cabling…
Here are some of the most insane examples of electrical (and phone?) cabling that we have found. Imagine being the electrician called in to fix a problem with that wiring. You’d get the wonderful opportunity to get both electrocuted AND entangled. 
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Main on March 27th, 2009 by Pingdom
If you’ve seen the movie Burn After Reading, you’ll undoubtedly remember when one of the characters, totally exasperated by the utterly confusing mess that has built up over the course of the movie, simply states, ”What a clusterfuck.”
We stumbled across this picture the other day, suitably named just that: Clusterfuck.
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Outages on October 13th, 2008 by Pingdom
Early on Friday (Oct 10) a power outage hit the Novell office and data center in Nürnberg, Germany, effectively taking down several services used by the popular Linux distribution OpenSUSE, including the download redirector (used for downloads and software updates if we understand it correctly) and the mailing lists.
Though the building had two power lines, both failed, and the power company had to dig up the cables to repair them.
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Guest posts on October 8th, 2008 by Pingdom
InformationWeek has managed to get an inside look at 1&1’s Lenexa, Kansas data center, built inside a former storage facility. 1&1 is one of the largest hosting companies in the world (arguably the largest), and this data center certainly isn’t small.
The data center has five server rooms with a total of 860 racks and can handle at least 40,000 servers.
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Main on January 24th, 2008 by Pingdom
We have posted pics of some truly messy data center cabling in the past, but this time we figured it was time to do the opposite: Show how some people have managed to organize cables into something close to art.
Courtesy of Digital:Slurp.
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Courtesy of ChrisDag.
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Courtesy of mbm3290. Swedish colors! How could we NOT include it?
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