I didn't say that I have sympathy for it but that unfortunately this is considered acceptable practice within many low-budget "hosting" companies and probably has been for 15 years. It's a known risk when you're buying a $50/month "server". Same general category of problem as the OVH datacenter that caught on fire in France a while back. Anything like that which becomes a race to the bottom in pricing for product MRC will have unacceptable corners cut.
I would highly encourage anyone who takes seriously hosting their own stuff to really know/understand the full infrastructure "underneath" your server in terms of power and cooling redundancy. On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 4:38 PM William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 3:56 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Bulk/high-volume hosting companies, dedicated server companies/small > > rack unit count colocation operate on very thin margins. Unless a > > customer is paying a LOT more per month they're not economically > > going to be connected to true diverse A/B power. > > Zero sympathy for anyone who advertises A/B power and doesn't at least > have them connected to different UPSs. Don't care how big you are; > don't advertise fake reliability. I don't need "six nines" to make > effective use of your service but if you lie to me, we're done. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > > -- > William Herrin > b...@herrin.us > https://bill.herrin.us/ >
