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The Equinix Blog
Company blog · blog.equinix.comsystems
The Equinix Blog is the company blog at blog.equinix.com, writing about systems. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Equinix Ransomware Incident”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments link this Equinix blog for background on data centre cooling, fire suppression and cloud regions hosted in colocation facilities. One comment calls a cooling post interesting; the others cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Equinix Ransomware Incident2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-10
What Hacker News says?
Slightly old but interesting https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2024/09/19/how-data-centers-us...
Comment linking /blog/2024/09/19/how-data-centers-use-water-and-how-were-working-to-use-water-responsibly/
on “Google's Liquid Cooling”Submitted Packet is now Equinix Metal as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere's a nozzle for that :) - http://www.fire-protection.com.au/news/hush-nozzle From what I understand, using water/dry pipe isn't unheard of. Some prefer it over Halon - https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2014/03/26/we-must-protect-thi... .
Comment linking /blog/2014/03/26/we-must-protect-this-house-against-disaster/
on “Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline”Submitted Equinix Statement on Security Incident as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- nl · 2016-01-07
Not sure if everyone realizes this, but often (outside the US at least) neither company build or owns data centers. For example, Amazon Sydney is in Equinix SY3[1]. [1] https://blog.equinix.com/2012/11/amazon-web-services-comes-t... (plus I know people who saw the equipment going in)
Comment linking /2012/11/amazon-web-services-comes-to-equinix-data-center-in-australia/
on “Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region” Submitted Equinix Ransomware Incident as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI recently heard some salty chap here on HN use the term "ClickOps" as opposed to "DevOps" or "GitOps" to describe the "just click on the button in the dev console web page to do that" approach. https://www.wiechtig.com/blog/clickops-is-the-worst/ https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/clickops/ https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2022/12/01/what-is-clickops-an...
Comment linking /blog/2022/12/01/what-is-clickops-and-how-can-you-prevent-it/
on “Building and Publishing Games to Steam Directly from GitHub Actions”Submitted Digital Age is driving programmable flexibility, agility and interconnection as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data is pouring over the edge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Equinix datacenter in NY metro had a water leak that impacted a customer as a story · 1 points
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