We also have weekly backups where 100% of the load for our entire company is put on the three generators. Everything inside the building is put onto the generators power, this way we can test for faulty UPS's etc and ensure the generators are working etc. I don't believe that they don't have a similar setup. Ray Corbin rcorbin@hostmysite.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick Giagnocavo Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:57 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: San Francisco Power Outage 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