Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?

["Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml () t-b-o-h net>]

> 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.

                                Tuc/TBOH