[72602] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for recommendations for Datacenter off CA Faultline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Mon Jul 19 22:06:30 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:02:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Curtis Maurand <curtis@maurand.com>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <OF148B42F7.E97B6426-ON80256ED6.0034A21F-80256ED6.0034F0A7@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Lots of stuff from Wall Street Financial houses set up their backups in
Kansas City.
There's a nice little data center in Portsmouth, NH. I used to work
there. http://www.worldpath.net (8 hours away by most airlines.) :-)
Curtis
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Curtis Maurand
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http://www.maurand.com
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com 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
> mighteffect its
>> main servers datacenter or connectivity. Problem is, they also want them
> as
>> physically close as possible.
>
> Not possible and risky too. The effect of a quake can be worse
> further from a faultline. You need to take a look at some maps
> of earthquake risk based on the soil type and underlying geology.
>
> Or do what the banks do and set up the backup site in
> Sacramento. It's not that far.
>
>> 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.
>
> This has been all worked out for you by other people who
> sited their data centers in Sacramento eons ago.
>
> --Michael Dillon
>
