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The original post sounds like a snippet from that Corey Doctorow end-of-the-world novel. Did they have to find parts to fashion a rudimentary lathe along the way? I applaud the efforts of the server team, but as one commenter stated, it sounds like a failure of the company's business continuity/disaster recovery plan. The cost of dealing with employees and customers in a burn ward should overshadow revenue flow.