[98187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Jul 25 16:41:46 2007
In-Reply-To: <200707251803.l6PI3fO0072248@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:35:32 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jul 25, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
>> 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.
The earth is a SPoF. Let's put DCs on the moon.
Besides, safety always overrides convenience. And I don't think that
is a bad trade off.
--
TTFN,
patrick
