I presume by coolant, that the server room at the company you work for uses portable units rather than a centralized system. HVAC industry doesn't really use freon-based systems anymore, it's all peltier/radiator closed systems in the 'modern world'. And I disagree, I think that this sort of downtime at any type of host is rare. In the hosting industry, unless you can't guarantee your customers 99.6% uptime, you end up with backed out investors, and losing business to someone that CAN provide such a service. I've seen some pretty gnarly rigging in datacenters to cut corners (like huge box fans with furnace filters duct taped to both sides rather than a ventilation filter to keep dust down) but in all of my professional experience I have yet to see a datacenter that hasn't planned the server builds around the room design and power source usage.

Portable and window unit air conditioning systems are influenced by external temperature, you'll end up freezing the compressor if you run it during cold weather. You'll also bend the copper pipes in the unit if you operate them far out of humidity specification (an air conditioner doubles as a dehumidifier, so if humidity is low, there are problems)

A sufficient BTU centralized air conditioning system is easily approximated like this:

Floor area * 340 + Humans (425 * permanent occupant count) + Power/network equipment (wattage * 3.5) + Lights (wattage * 4.25) == total BTU cooling capacity needed for an application

I didn't mention windows, because most datacenters don't have them. I'm sure a quick Google search could yield how to calculate them though.

Today's virtualized datacenters usually require 3.8k BTU per two 24U cabinets give or take 300 - direct push due to the heat being centralized rather than equalized across the floor plan. MOST companies also have capacity to spare (cooling-wise) for expansion in the original design already calculated and have to adhere to those guidelines for insurance purposes.

My guess is they're concentrating on the people that actually pay for their services and not PEQ

Repair man?
 

Man I can fix AC units... Thats what I do.

Oh great PEQ where hath thou gone!

This must be my fault every time i get all ready to come back to EQ the server dies for a week or 2 before i can play lol.

ye i feel quite weird actually, i havent played EQ In YEARSSSS, then i come back to play and its soo epic and fun and nostalgic because its massively oldschool compared to what i usually play, and all these good feelings and memories are coming back and then all of a sudden, BAM, and the server is dead, rofl, and the funny thing is, im in year 12 at the moment and had just started playing right near the end of the holidays, and right when i had to go back to school, the server died, is this a sign that year 12 and everquest dont go together, maybe, if so then this is all my folt and some higher power is stuffing the AC up just to make me not fail at school :D.

Hope you all enjoy your withdrawal symptons, Tobbygnome.

Looks like my move this last weekend didn't cause me to miss to much then. We started moving Saturday and onl y got half done as we had 5 tornadoes within sight ot the house and 6" rain. We finish up this saturday and maybe they will have the internet up at the new house by then.

Side not if someone from norathians could pm me the guild website i would apprecciate it.

Thanks

Babkan

Man 5 tornadoes, what a welcoming crew!

Any word on a restart yet?

J

Come beta test Project 1999! Play EQ like it used to be :)

ac problem.....the server needed a gear upgrade so it could tank the main IT mob for its epic 2.0

I can hit projecteq.net now. I'm not at home so I can't check the game server but looks promising

ROFL.

By the way, I was able to load ProjectEQ.net this afternoon. No update on the News there, however.

Yes there was, under General. The game server has been up all day, now we're just waiting on the LS to come back up.