[98103] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: San Francisco Power Outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Tue Jul 24 20:54:01 2007
In-Reply-To: <46A68310.4070000@rollernet.us>
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:57:28 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jul 24, 2007, at 6:54 PM, 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.
>
Sad that the little Telcove DC here in Lancaster, PA, that Level3
bought a few months ago, has weekly full-on generator tests where
100% of the load is transferred to the generator, while apparently
large DCs that are charging premium rates, do not.
Cordially
Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick@zill.net
