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Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:35:32 -0400
On Jul 25, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
If they can be avoided, why do we put up with them? Do we really want our colo in downtown San Francisco bad enough to take the risk of having a single point of failure? How can we, as engineers, ask questions about how many generators, how much fuel, and yet take for granted that there is one button on the wall that makes it all turn off? Is it simply that having colo in the middle of the city is so convenient that it overrides the increased cost and the reduced redundancy that are necessitated by that location?You forgot the default "Single Point of Failure" in anything.. HUMANS.
The earth is a SPoF. Let's put DCs on the moon.Besides, safety always overrides convenience. And I don't think that is a bad trade off.
-- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Leo Bicknell (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? John C. A. Bambenek (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Roy (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? David Lesher (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Stephen Wilcox (Jul 26)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 26)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Warren Kumari (Jul 26)
- RE: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Howard C. Berkowitz (Jul 26)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Roy (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? John C. A. Bambenek (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Warren Kumari (Jul 25)
- RE: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Alex Rubenstein (Jul 25)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Mattias Ahnberg (Jul 26)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? Alexander Harrowell (Jul 27)
- Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's? chuck goolsbee (Jul 25)