Re: San Francisco Power Outage

[Jim Popovitch <yahoo () jimpop com>]

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 19:57 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps they do.  Wouldn't have mattered in this case if the
big-red-button rumor is real.  ;-)

-Jim P.