"One of the companies I support on the side lost the A/C to their Server closet. The company is so cheap that they did not want to pay for weekend/Holiday emergency service to repair the A/C. The company is based in FL and this went down on July 4th weekend - you can only imagine how hot this room was.



They told me to "Cool it the best I can" so I went to all their offices and started gathering fans and placing them in the server room. You can see the 2 stand up fans one is on the floor cooling the bottom of the rack the other I had to pull out the KVM and put it on top of it to cool the top of the rack. Then I stacked some boxes on the floor including a LTO3 tape and pointed another fan at the Telco rack. I then turned the A/C down on the floor where the server room is located to 65 and set up fans all through the hallway and office to try and direct the A/C into the room.



I ended up taking all the doors and walls off the Rack in hopes it would cool down a bit more and then put the walls in the hallway to further direct the cold air. This actually did the trick, cooling the room to about 85. Still hot but it was at 104 when I got there. They ran their room like this for 4 days. I could not believe that nothing crashed and that everything worked fine. Beyond these issues as you can see the wiring in this place is a MESS!! I've offered numerous times to fix this and am always told no they don’t want to pay for it to look pretty. Wish I had a better photo of this but at the time I just took it as I thought it was priceless."



Credit: MWatson

Published: November 1, 2010 -- 07:32 GMT (00:32 PDT) Caption by: Selena Frye