Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Jean-François Mezei wrote:
The thing about a carrier hotel is that it cannot be a secret location since you need to allow various carriers and ISPs to have physical access to the building so they can install/manage their servers/routers/switches.
The advantage of this swedish data centre is that even if its location is well known, it is pretty hard to harm the building. You can't run a truck full of explosives into it for instance.
Unfortunately, you also cannot run your own fiber there, colo equipment there, visit it for any reason, etc.
I was going to say 'this probably hinders customers adoption at NetNod', but I know for a fact the "probably" is superfluous.
Fault free datacenters include neither people, nor computers, nor connectivity, nor HVAC, nor electricity. If you can eliminate those things you will have a 100% uptime datacenter. Andrew