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Re: San Francisco Power Outage


From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick () zill net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:57:28 -0400



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 () zill net




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