I didn't say that I have sympathy for it but that unfortunately this is considered acceptable practice within many low-budget "hosting" companies and probably has been for 15 years. It's a known risk when you're buying a $50/month "server". Same general category of problem as the OVH datacenter that caught on fire in France a while back. Anything like that which becomes a race to the bottom in pricing for product MRC will have unacceptable corners cut.

I would highly encourage anyone who takes seriously hosting their own stuff to really know/understand the full infrastructure "underneath" your server in terms of power and cooling redundancy.

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 4:38 PM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 3:56 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bulk/high-volume hosting companies, dedicated server companies/small
> rack unit count colocation operate on very thin margins. Unless a
> customer is paying a LOT more per month they're not economically
> going to be connected to true diverse A/B power.

Zero sympathy for anyone who advertises A/B power and doesn't at least
have them connected to different UPSs. Don't care how big you are;
don't advertise fake reliability. I don't need "six nines" to make
effective use of your service but if you lie to me, we're done.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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