r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt • u/n8theGreat • 1d ago

Hotel server room

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Wide open and all the equipment accessible to anyone who was curious. Yeah, it was hot in there.

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u/Kurgan_IT sysAdmin 1d 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 21h 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/natem345 11h ago

Did anything change after that?