[98180] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET)
Wed Jul 25 14:58:24 2007
From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net>
To: bicknell@ufp.org (Leo Bicknell)
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:03:41 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070725160747.GB75636@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> If they can be avoided, why do we put up with them? Do we really
> want our colo in downtown San Francisco bad enough to take the risk
> of having a single point of failure? How can we, as engineers, ask
> questions about how many generators, how much fuel, and yet take
> for granted that there is one button on the wall that makes it all
> turn off? Is it simply that having colo in the middle of the city
> is so convenient that it overrides the increased cost and the reduced
> redundancy that are necessitated by that location?
>
You forgot the default "Single Point of Failure" in anything..
HUMANS.
Tuc/TBOH
