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Re: San Francisco Power Outage


From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:53:54 +0800


On Tue, Jul 24, 2007, 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.

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


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