Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator

Sat Apr 5 00:09:54 UTC 2003

The goal of the generator is to keep the datacenter running when the power
fails. Power around here fails because of storms and earthquakes, both of
which have a demonstrated history of also taking out natural gas at times.

This means that at least one of your generators (around here) should run on
something you store on-site. And thus, if you can only afford one, that one
must be in that category.

By your logic, the fact that electricity is _usually_ available on tap
eliminates the need for a generator altogether.

Matthew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Woodcock [mailto:woody at pch.net] 
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 4:04 PM
> To: Matthew Kaufman
> Cc: 'David Lesher'; 'nanog list'
> Subject: RE: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator
> 
> 
>       On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
>     > natural gas has been off for multiple days in a row twice.
>     > So for the last datacenter I built, I went with diesel.
> 
> I'm not following your logic...  How does the fact that 
> natural gas is _usually_ available on-tap, and diesel _never_ 
> is make diesel preferable?
> 
>                                 -Bill
> 
> 