Looking for recommendations for Datacenter off CA Faultline

Mon Jul 19 09:38:15 UTC 2004

>  A company I work with (who's servers are located in the San Jose, CA) 
is
> looking to setup some backup servers at a datacenter whose connectivity 
and
> location is off any faultline, or away from other malady, that 
mighteffect its
> main servers datacenter or connectivity. Problem is, they also want them 
as
> physically close as possible. 

Not possible and risky too. The effect of a quake can be worse
further from a faultline. You need to take a look at some maps
of earthquake risk based on the soil type and underlying geology.

Or do what the banks do and set up the backup site in
Sacramento. It's not that far.

>  It does me no good to go to a datacenter whose connectivity also comes
> from the same peeing points or fiber that would be effected or take down 
a
> data center in South Bay. Despite being off faultline.

This has been all worked out for you by other people who
sited their data centers in Sacramento eons ago.

--Michael Dillon