In the past 2 large earthquakes I've been present to hold the servers up. they moved enough this last time to pull power cables out of the wall.
So I rigged up a 2x4 (aka 20mm x 50mm) piece of timber, and bolted it to the wall and to my server racks, so that I don't have to keep them from shaking by bracing them with my shoulders during a large quake.
There was a moment when I looked up at the large Air Con unit above my head and wondered if it would pop off and fall on me while I was holding up the servers.
And for a moment I thought 'this will be hard to explain.... Here Lies Chad, killed by an Air Conditioner while trying to keep server racks from falling over. Cool.'
