Well, the fact still remains that operating a datacenter smack-dab in the center of some of the most inflated real estate in recent history is quite a castly endeavor. I really wouldn't be all that surprised if 365 Main cut some corners here and there behind the scenes to save costs while saving face. As it is, they don't have remotely enough power to fill that facility to capacity, and they've suffered some pretty nasty outages in the recent past. I'm strongly considering the possibility of completely moving out of there. --j On 7/24/07, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net> 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.
Cordially
Patrick Giagnocavo patrick@zill.net
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