The Alaska Server

41 pointsposted 3 days ago
by speckx
(serialport.org)

12 Comments

jjulius

3 hours ago

Am I having deja vu? I saw this exact same thread a few days ago, with the very same comment about the non sequitur. When I search for it on HN, the search results say the thread was posted "3 days ago", but when I open the thread, it says "3 hours ago".

What's happening?

inigyou

3 hours ago

Second-chance pool. Dang can manually reset the timestamp on an article, which brings it back to the front page, and sneakily also resets the timestamp on any existing comments so nobody will question it.

MisterTea

36 minutes ago

Any significance to this brand or just showcasing a little known white-box reseller of the past?

AnimalMuppet

3 days ago

"Alaska" servers. "Alaska Arctic Power".

From a company in Mexico.

I mean, they may be perfectly good servers. Well, if it stood for a decade before failing, it's not just. I'm just having trouble seeing past the glaring naming non sequitur.

stackghost

3 days ago

"Alaska" carries reasonably strong connotations of ruggedness and durability, and probably the arctic associations are also beneficial if you want to sell a server advertised as "running cool", or whatever. It's just marketing.

It's no different than Toyota manufacturing Tacoma trucks in Mexico, Hyundai making the Santa Fe in South Korea, or Boston Pizza and Swiss Chalet existing despite being Canadian companies and having nothing to do with either Boston or Switzerland.

gwerbin

2 hours ago

There is a specialty coffee farm in Ecuador called Alaska del Sur.