[Coco] Re: coco3.com down?!?

[William Astle]

Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 11:57 PM 7/18/2006, you wrote:
>> Man - even the 2-bit ISP/Hosting company I worked at a couple years 
>> ago had enough UPS and Generator to go for 5-7 days without re-fueling.
>> What's up with THAT?
>> I think they need to re-think "Professional Hosting"
>> Tony
> 
> 
> Sometimes even the pros have to learn the hard way about emergencies.  
> These guys are top-notch in service and features, but it seems they 
> never thought the power would be down for so long to require anything 
> other than the best UPS devices.
> 
> I think they ran forever before crapping out and not all of the boxes 
> suffered.  In other words, they had constant power going to most of the 
> servers during the outage.

There is another factor to consider, as well. During the blackout the 
other year, somewhere around 5% of generators *did not start* even 
though they were maintained properly. And here, we're talking about 
companies that are held to *telco* regulations. Thus it is possible to 
do everything "right" and *still* lose power. For that matter, even if 
the generator starts, it can still fail for any number of reasons at a 
later time, too.


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