Looking for recommendations for Datacenter off CA Faultline

Tue Jul 20 02:02:40 UTC 2004

Lots of stuff from Wall Street Financial houses set up their backups in 
Kansas City.

There's a nice little data center in Portsmouth, NH.  I used to work 
there.  http://www.worldpath.net  (8 hours away by most airlines.) :-)

Curtis

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Curtis Maurand
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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:

>
>>  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
>