They should have generators running...I can't foresee any good datacenter not having multiple generators to keep their customers servers online with UPS. -Ray -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Adrian Chadd Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:54 PM To: Seth Mattinen Cc: nanog list Subject: Re: San Francisco Power Outage On Tue, Jul 24, 2007, 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.
If you do accept this is a good reason for failure, why?
Didn't you read? He paid extra for super-reliable power from his electricity provider.. Adrian