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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