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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 22:10:46 -0400 (EDT)
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.
And I could tell you about large DC's that are charging premium rates, had (admittedly) quarterly generator tests that ended up failing and causing down time MULTIPLE TIMES too. Meanwhile the generator at my parents house I had installed has weekly tests and runs fine, but I'm waiting for that unbelievably cold unbelievably harsh winters day where the power goes out and the generator fails... Because its a machine. It has wear, it breaks. I don't know that I'd be comfortable with a full load every time. Rather it be load banks.... Tuc/TBOH
Current thread:
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage, (continued)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Brandon Galbraith (Jul 24)
- RE: San Francisco Power Outage Randy Epstein (Jul 25)
- RE: San Francisco Power Outage Brian Wallingford (Jul 25)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Jeff Aitken (Jul 25)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Paul Vixie (Jul 25)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Jason Matthews (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Michael Loftis (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Jonathan Lassoff (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Jason Matthews (Jul 25)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Paul Vixie (Jul 25)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET (Jul 24)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Stephen Wilcox (Jul 25)
- RE: San Francisco Power Outage michael.dillon (Jul 25)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage Ben Scott (Jul 26)
- Re: San Francisco Power Outage David Lesher (Jul 25)