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Re: San Francisco Power Outage
From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml () t-b-o-h net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:01:28 -0400 (EDT)
But as George mentions... Sh*t happens.... There are things you can't forsee, or maybe spend way too much engineering to overcome that 1 in a million "oops". I've been at Telehouse 25B a few times when the "I never expected something like that would happen" happened. (I remember two guys with VERY LONG screwdrivers poking a live transfer switch to get it to reset properly, and was told to step back 20 feet as thats how far they expected to get thrown if they did something wrong). (I also remember them resetting the switch, then TRIPPING it again just to make sure it could be reset again!) Tuc/TBOH
They should have generators running...I can't foresee any good datacenter not having multiple generators to keep their customers servers online with UPS. -Ray -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Adrian Chadd Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:54 PM To: Seth Mattinen Cc: nanog list Subject: Re: San Francisco Power Outage On Tue, Jul 24, 2007, Seth Mattinen wrote:I have a question: does anyone seriously accept "oh, power trouble" asareason your servers went offline? Where's the generators? UPS? Testingsaid 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.If you do accept this is a good reason for failure, why?Didn't you read? He paid extra for super-reliable power from his electricity provider.. Adrian
Current thread:
- San Francisco Power Outage Jonathan Lassoff (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Seth Mattinen (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Adrian Chadd (Jul 24)
- RE: San Francisco Power Outage Raymond L. Corbin (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage John Kinsella (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Justin M. Streiner (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Michael Painter (Jul 25)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Adrian Chadd (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Seth Mattinen (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Jim Popovitch (Jul 24)
- RE: San Francisco Power Outage Alex Rubenstein (Jul 24)