The Alaska Server

https://serialport.org/blog/the-alaska-server/

by speckx • 1 month ago

46 16 1 month 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.

ThePinion• 1 month ago

As an Alaskan I am both confused and amused.

esseph• 1 month ago

Former Alaskan, very disappointed after skimming the first part of the article.

stackghost• 1 month 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• 1 month ago

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

dredmorbius2• 1 month ago

"Toyota Tundra"?

"Kia Telluride"?

cman1444• 1 month ago

The blog actually spells it "Artic", not "Arctic". I wonder if the blog or the company misspelled it.

Maxious• 1 month ago

In the video they are clear that the company misspelled it

jjulius• 1 month 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?

1970-01-01• 1 month ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

inigyou• 1 month 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.

serialport• 1 month ago

the Youtube video about this server was just released last night - which is hopefully more interesting than just the rather short blog post.

MisterTea• 1 month ago

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

The Alaska Server

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