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[dandanfirema]

I intentionally wanted to bring this question offline so as not to toss stones at those providers who had power issues today.

I saw in a few threads today reports/excuses of upstream bandwidth providers being out of power today. It is my expectation that any upstream carrier I would be doing business with would provide a significant amount of power protection for their datacenters/equipment such that I would never expect have a circuit down due to power issues. Am I missing something here?


The threads seem to indicate "it doesn't really matter that we were down....all our providers were anyway" just doesn't seem right to me.

[amps]

What threads did you see excuses in? It appears to me that the stories are still developing.

[Skeptical]

I think that's bull. When Alchemy came back up all of my servers had rebooted, meaning there was a power loss.

If bandwidth carriers were really that lame, then why would any data center bother with backup generators?