San Francisco Power Outage

Wed Jul 25 01:00:53 UTC 2007

We also have weekly backups where 100% of the load for our entire
company is put on the three generators. Everything inside the building
is put onto the generators power, this way we can test for faulty UPS's
etc and ensure the generators are working etc. I don't believe that they
don't have a similar setup.

Ray Corbin

rcorbin at hostmysite.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Patrick Giagnocavo
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:57 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: San Francisco Power Outage

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