[98101] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: San Francisco Power Outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Tue Jul 24 20:25:01 2007
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:53:54 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <46A68310.4070000@rollernet.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> I have a question: does anyone seriously accept "oh, power trouble" as a
> reason your servers went offline? Where's the generators? UPS? Testing
> said combination of UPS and generators? What if it was important? I
> honestly find it hard to believe anyone runs a facility like that and
> people actually *pay* for it.
> If you do accept this is a good reason for failure, why?
Didn't you read? He paid extra for super-reliable power from his
electricity provider..
Adrian
