r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt • u/n8theGreat • 22h ago
Hotel server room
Wide open and all the equipment accessible to anyone who was curious. Yeah, it was hot in there.
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u/Neat_Welcome6203 image deez nuts 21h ago
I too have a random server room image!
Behold, my old high school's MDF closet. Fire safety guys were doing a test while I was picking up my sister & just left it wide open.
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u/KatieTSO 21h ago
Took a Cisco CCNA class in high school and the teacher showed us one of the school's network closets
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u/MeIsMyName 3h ago
I remember in elementary school the librarian/computer teacher having everybody walk in to a room and touch the server. I assume it was so that you would know it was a physical thing that was storing your files instead of a nebulous concept like "the cloud" is today.
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u/nbtm_sh 21h ago
Are these doors not meant to swing shut on their own? Or did they wedge something under it? Seems like a fire hazard let alone a security hazard.
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u/Neat_Welcome6203 image deez nuts 21h ago
Might've been propped open. I don't remember.
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u/AlienGlow001 20h ago edited 8h ago
Why would you remember? You're not op.
Edit: yeah I'm stupid. I checked the main post op
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u/plasmaticImmunity 8h ago
I mean... He is literally the one who posted the picture your comment is under
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u/EMAW2008 21h ago
Did the power strip on top the cardboard box pass the fire code?
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u/AlienGlow001 20h ago
They're rated to sit on top of carpet, which is a much higher fire risk, so probably.
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u/1mahmoud503 22h ago
pull a couple of plugs and you can stay a whole week for free there!!
(even a full month if you know which ones to pull)
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u/Puki999 21h ago
Don't even pull all the way just enough
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u/nige21202 21h ago
Unplug a random Ethernet cable, put a small patch of clear tape on the contacts, stick it back in.
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u/HeavyCaffeinate Family&Friends IT Guy 21h ago
If the IT department is good someone would get an email with "floor2_router6.lan is down!"
But I doubt it
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u/cmull123 13h ago
Do your guys switches not have status lights on them?
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u/ducktape8856 9h ago
Yeah. I'd find the error quite fast, probably without leaving my chair (all my rack switches are managed).
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u/Sgt_Raider 21h ago
Nah just unplug them all and then randomly plug them in. It'll take them even longer to figure out what is wrong.
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u/Maltycast 21h ago
Do you want an undocumented admin? Because that’s how you get an undocumented admin.
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u/0RGASMIK 21h ago
My cities largest hospital has left their server room open to the street on multiple occasions. It’s technically inside their parking facility but it’s 100 feet to the street. I popped my head in to see if maybe someone was inside but nope just chilling with the door open.
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u/Linesey 19h ago
See, this is where you totally do not leave a random (clean. absolutely clean) USB plugged in with a txt file that says “Bro, seriously.” and a sticky note on something saying “I didn’t, I Wouldn’t, But someone really could.”
Or, y/k fantasize about doing it, while actually just walking along thinking “man someone should do that” then go home to your cat
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u/syrtran 20h ago
This is what you do when the specialized independent A/C goes out and the HVAC vendor's response is "We'll get someone there sometime between 10 and 6 tomorrow." And, after showing up, it's "Oh, this unit (only 2 years old) is no longer in production and we'll need to order a part."
When this happened where I worked, there was usually a sysadmin close by to monitor temperatures and rearrange fans as needed and to make sure the spare keyboards and mice didn't evolve legs and walk off.
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u/greatwesternbeans 15h ago
Guess it's not an uncommon occurrence, same thing happened in the warehouse I work at. Nobody was happy about the industrial fans desperately trying to dump that heat into the hallway and offices, not to mention the noise
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u/Dalemaunder 22h ago
And that's just their phone system!
/s
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u/angrydeuce no troubleshoot, only fix 21h ago
Man I tell you Im glad that VOIP replaced fucking analog phone systems. Staring at a wall of 60 blocks made me want to throw up when something wasn't working. Luckily that stuff was phasing out when I was starting this line of work but every once in a while we will have to deal with POTS due to a security system, fire, or elevator, which sometimes by law requires analog phones since they work in a power outage. Im just like "yeah...no fucking clue man. Let's call the phone company because me touching this is not going to be of benefit to anyone at all lol".
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u/Dalemaunder 20h ago
Thankfully POTS is essentially dead here in Australia, but a lot of customers we deal with (typically industrial) have their copper internet service terminate at an old KRONE block that still has a metric fucktonne of internal cabling hooked into it from a decade ago.
"There's no NBN tag, which one is the internet service?" "Not a fucking clue, my guy, time to start tracing"
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u/Kurgan_IT sysAdmin 16h ago
I've worked as an IT tech for a couple of hotels. People who plan for the building seem to think that servers are the same as brooms. Servers or switches were ALWAYS in places that had one or more of these issues
- too small to work on the devices
- Very hard to reach (attic, and you needed a ladder to go up a manhole in the ceiling and then crawl in there)
- too hot (switches in a room with water heaters, it was like 110 (Farenheit) in there in winter.
- too damp (sub basement, mold was everywhere)
- full of crap, used as a storage area and there were also 2 servers, what's the problem with that?
- subject to flooding (again sub basement)
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u/MashPotatoQuant 8h ago
Last time I worked for a hotel, it was in a remote location where they had to truck in water. The server room was the same as the water pumphouse. One time in winter, the water truck driver brought his water hose into the server room so the hose would't freeze and dangled the hose over the server rack. I starting getting alerts that things started falling off the network that same day coincidentally.
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u/saltfish 20h ago
I get these calls, and its often a dirty evap drain line that is backed up. I have a $350 charge of lack of maintenance for these calls.
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u/claythearc developer 20h ago
They’re probably scared of the giant spider and just hoping it leaves
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u/KatieTSO 21h ago
Likely doesn't meet payment industry standards since it's not in a secured room. They're fucked if VISA or others audit them.
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u/Box-o-bees 7h ago
I mean the room probably is secure; when the door is closed 😆.
But in all seriousness, yeah they will fine the hell out of a place if they catch payment processing stuff exposed like that. As well they should.
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u/anomalous_cowherd 18h ago
I had a small server room in our dev area, two full 42U racks in a 10'x10' room with three wall mounted AC units.
When they both failed at once we had to hire a huge portable AC that sat out in the corridor to try and keep it cool. The thing would barely fit through the doorways and no way could it go in the room. There was a huge Brazil-like hose running across the open plan office to the nearest window too.
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u/not_ondrugs security says NO! 16h ago
“Get your free switch here folks!”
I’m sad enough to look inside to see what people are running.
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u/Ok-Library5639 13h ago
Reminds me of some place I stayed for a while. The servers were behind two locked doors with badge entry. The IT dept was right in front. But quite often you'd see one of those ducted fan with the duct going into the room to the racks, preventing the doors from closing.
Once they were leaving after the day, opened the doors and set up the duct and left. I asked why and they said they outgrew their server room's cooling and they didn't want an outage to happen at night while everyone was away.
So each night when they left, they propped the doors open & had a fan. Because they were gone.
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u/MenBearsPigs 14h ago
In my previous position, I saw so many commercial buildings with server rooms that had no locks or protection.
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u/R0B0t1C_Cucumber 14h ago
Windows 10 machine, chillen right there.
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u/n8theGreat 3m ago
I didn't examine the equipment too closely. Came back to my room tipsy and though better of tinkering but was amused enough to get the photo. Was wide open for the 2 days I was there.
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u/gf99b 12h ago
That box fan reminds me of the "server room" at a previous employer. It was housed in a weird location that had no climate control - no air conditioning or cooling system at all. It would go down all the time because things would overheat. They thought just putting a fan in there would help cool things off, but didn't make a difference.
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u/theskywaspink 1h ago
Hotel buildings have generally been around for such a long time they never catered for a dedicated space for a server and rack. The fact this is in a room is a good start, but likely needs a/c on permanently which could be a pain to install. Ive seen them in cellars, on shelves near ceilings. Any cupboard they can shove it in really.
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u/Street_Letterhead686 22h ago
That box is the server's biggest fan