[98112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: San Francisco Power Outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Tue Jul 24 22:13:33 2007
From: Jim Popovitch <yahoo@jimpop.com>
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <A145E6EA-6FCC-41E3-AD72-2E8C292E100C@zill.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:57:59 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 19:57 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>
> 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.
Perhaps they do. Wouldn't have mattered in this case if the
big-red-button rumor is real. ;-)
-Jim P.
