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Re: Looking for recommendations for Datacenter off CA Faultline

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Fri Jul 16 20:17:21 2004

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 19:16:29 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.040716144522.nmh@daemontech.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Nicole wrote:

>  A company I work with (who's servers are located in the San Jose, CA) is
> looking to setup some backup servers at a datacenter whose connectivity and
> location is off any faultline, or away from other malady, that might effect its
> main servers datacenter or connectivity. Problem is, they also want them as
> physically close as possible. 

We just had an earthquake here in Nebraska.  Maybe you want to look
around New Madrid, MO.

>  Might anyone have any recommendations for datacenters and or ways I can best
> determine this? 

Are tornadoes and lightening an issue?

>  It does me no good to go to a datacenter whose connectivity also comes
> from the same peeing points or fiber that would be effected or take down a
> data center in South Bay. Despite being off faultline.

The CoE is pretty strict about what we dump in the river, so I
don't think there are any peeing points that would be useful for you.

>  Hopefully I have worded this coherently.

Ummmmm......


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