On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Tico <tico-nanog@raapid.net> wrote:
Sometimes it is easier to picture things that way.
Regardless of generator sizing issues or disparities, if the ATS fails, then no amount of grid or generator power will keep the cabinets juiced up.
Since this is the second time in recent history that this building has experienced a short power outage caused by ATS flakiness, perhaps keeping a small UPS in the cabinet isn't such a bad idea? Even if the distribution switches/routers lose power, at least the servers wouldn't have to go through fscks and DB integrity checks due to unplanned power loss, and the recovery time would be significantly faster.
Hell, for a 5 minute power outage, some of my services were down for 20 minutes. I'll happily take a 75% reduction in downtime for the cost of a UPS , though clearly redundancy across more reliable datacenters is a better solution.
Maybe some of us [[soon-to-be-]ex-]customers of Hurricane can bake them a cake and beg for UPSes. Or reliable power. Or for someone to actually answer the voicemails much less phone calls within even a few hours of an outage. Or for there to be at the very least a status page notifying customers that they are, in fact, screwed, and for how long, and that it's useless to continue trying to get through at such time. Who's with me?