Pre-cog.
My co made a big push last year to shift everything off of Claranet and move it in house. It’s lucky really, as we hosted 1000+ customer vms, I’m panicking just imagining the call volume we’d have had.
Brit hosting provider Claranet found itself resetting the "29 days without incident" sign this morning as "connectivity issues" felled customer emails and websites all over again. Problems were first acknowledged at 10:23 BST, when the company's Twitter presence winced: "We are experiencing connectivity issues in one of our …
Two failures, at two different data centres and both times it's a) Power related and b) Disrupts the entire opperation.
Do you think they've failed to understand why data centres have at least two of everything?? Me thinks they have fwo power supplies, both feeding into one computer and it needing both to stay awake
I don't think I've ever heard of a place having redundant air-con.
Actually, now I say that, the last place I worked the 'server room' was just a disused office with a couple of racks in and a lock on the door. Because the room was big enough for two overhead aircon units, technically it was redundant (they weren't UPS powered though). Handy for when they had to be turned off for maintenance.