Our colocation facility "Guarantees" 100% uptime. So, they have
generators and all that jazz. However, the power grids that went down
today were designed with mechanisms that were supposed to keep the
cascading failure from happening. So, there are generators and big
UPSes, but we don't know for sure that they will work. We just have
the colocation's "Guarantee" that they will.
That's the best we can hope for, IMHO.
Jason
Ray Saintonge wrote:
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
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