"Class A Data Center"

Thu Sep 18 20:55:13 UTC 2003

andrew2 at one.net wrote:
> Particularly of interest would be "established standards" for "Class A
> Datacenter" specifically relating to the physical plant -- Power,
> cooling, physical security, etc.  I think we can all agree in general on
> N+1 everything, and we can go round and round again on what exactly
> constitutes "Tier-1 provider," but what about the physical space itself?
> I can put a fully-redundant network with multiple "Tier-1" connections
> in my garage but I still wouldn't consider my garage to then be a "Class
> A Datacenter."
> 

And let's not forget that they need to have good staffing, especially 
the abuse department.

-Jack