San Francisco Power Outage

Tue Jul 24 23:57:28 UTC 2007

On Jul 24, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>
> I have a question: does anyone seriously accept "oh, power trouble"  
> as a reason your servers went offline? Where's the generators? UPS?  
> Testing said combination of UPS and generators? What if it was  
> important? I honestly find it hard to believe anyone runs a  
> facility like that and people actually *pay* for it.
>

Sad that the little Telcove DC here in Lancaster, PA, that Level3  
bought a few months ago, has weekly full-on generator tests where  
100% of the load is transferred to the generator, while apparently  
large DCs that are charging premium rates, do not.

Cordially

Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net