Lots of stuff from Wall Street Financial houses set up their backups in Kansas City. There's a nice little data center in Portsmouth, NH. I used to work there. http://www.worldpath.net (8 hours away by most airlines.) :-) Curtis -- Curtis Maurand mailto:curtis@maurand.com http://www.maurand.com On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
A company I work with (who's servers are located in the San Jose, CA) is looking to setup some backup servers at a datacenter whose connectivity and location is off any faultline, or away from other malady, that mighteffect its main servers datacenter or connectivity. Problem is, they also want them as physically close as possible.
Not possible and risky too. The effect of a quake can be worse further from a faultline. You need to take a look at some maps of earthquake risk based on the soil type and underlying geology.
Or do what the banks do and set up the backup site in Sacramento. It's not that far.
It does me no good to go to a datacenter whose connectivity also comes from the same peeing points or fiber that would be effected or take down a data center in South Bay. Despite being off faultline.
This has been all worked out for you by other people who sited their data centers in Sacramento eons ago.
--Michael Dillon