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Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 01/14/08 11:25
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Baho Utot wrote:
>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>
>> [putolin]
>>
>>> The last major power outage her was over 5 days.
>>
>> Well even in Philippines we don't get that kind of outage....well
>> unless a
>> typhoon comes thru. But I was really talking about my "personal data
>> center" in the USA.
>>
>
> It happened all over the D.C. area here when Hurricane Isabelle came
> through a few years ago. We were lucky. Some were out for seven days.
>
We had a load of lines down for three days, but then so did half the
country, and a surprising number of websites went out as well. But we
find that people thinking about e.g. interior design, tend to do it much
less, when they are cooking on camping stoves by candle light.
>>> And even if your UPS handles the power - what about your communications
>>> link?
>>>
>>
>> It is on the UPS as all the networking stuff. I the past 3 years my
>> USA "personal data center" has been down at least 0 hours and the uptime
>> has been 100%. :)
>> So much for 5 nines. :)
>>
>
> And you control the ONE communications line, also? I doubt it. Even
> here, we get cable outages of 2-3 hours at least a couple of times a year.
Its not MY fault you live in a third world country with dodgy
infrastructure. Since I have been on broadband, I have had one time a
lorry snapped the phone cable, one time for about 1/2 day when the ATM
backhaul went into overload due to kit failure, and one time when the
radius servers were flaky for a day.
Most of the commercial sites I frequent, have more frequent and longer
outages than that.
My WORST outage was down to a brownout situation that tripped the
circuits here while I was out. The server was down overnight. I forgot
to reboot it when we got power back on. No one complained.
>
> Sounds like you've been lucky to not have any outages in five years. It
> is not the norm. Communications outages happen all of the time. That's
> why major data centers have redundant links through different providers.
>
I think its more that you have been, if not unlucky, unfortunate to live
somewhere where the local infrastructure is basically third world.
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