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

[tonym]

Well, considering what alot of internet firms had to go through here
last year, after the hurricane, there is no excuse for a few-hours outage.
I'm not EVEN going to get into what firms in and New Orleans had to go through.

I know we had the ISP down here on generators for about 5-7 weeks.

Biggest problem was FINDING fuel, as most gas stations had no power themselves!
We had to drive about 3-4 hours north, hauling drums of fuel down. One of the owner's
brothers had a diesel truck with twin tanks - we filled the second with gas, which we syphoned out once we got back, as well as the 5-6 drums in the bed! It was a most interesting time indeed....

But we managed to keep it up....about 99.81% uptime during the 5-7 weeks
of no utility power.

Tony 


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: William Astle <lost at l-w.ca>
Reply-To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Date:  Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:05:16 -0600

>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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