[98107] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: San Francisco Power Outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond L. Corbin)
Tue Jul 24 21:13:08 2007
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:36:59 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20070724235354.GM23004@skywalker.creative.net.au>
From: "Raymond L. Corbin" <rcorbin@hostmysite.com>
To: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@creative.net.au>,
"Seth Mattinen" <sethm@rollernet.us>
Cc: "nanog list" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
They should have generators running...I can't foresee any good
datacenter not having multiple generators to keep their customers
servers online with UPS.
-Ray
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Adrian Chadd
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:54 PM
To: Seth Mattinen
Cc: nanog list
Subject: Re: San Francisco Power Outage
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> I have a question: does anyone seriously accept "oh, power trouble" as
a=20
> reason your servers went offline? Where's the generators? UPS? Testing
> said combination of UPS and generators? What if it was important? I=20
> honestly find it hard to believe anyone runs a facility like that and=20
> 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
