Brion Vibber wrote:
Walter Vermeir wrote:
I have read news about a power problem in the
USA. Is there a backup
power system for the Wikipedia servers and there conection to the
internet?
I have no idea what our power infrastructure is like, but I wouldn't
worry too much; the server is on the opposite end of the country from
today's big power outages.
What protection do we have against California brownouts?
All we can hope for with massive blackouts like today's is that the
system has enough backup power to shut itself off in an orderly fashion
without hurting itself. Beyond that all we can do is wait for the power
to come back on. Despite our sympathies, I doubt that emergency
personnel would attach the same importance to Wikipedia that we do. :-)
Ec