San Francisco Power Outage
Jim Popovitch
yahoo at jimpop.com
Wed Jul 25 00:57:59 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 19:57 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>
> 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.
Perhaps they do. Wouldn't have mattered in this case if the
big-red-button rumor is real. ;-)
-Jim P.
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