Ted Roche wrote:
On 7/6/06, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't generate my own electricity or purify my own
> water; I leave that to professionals who understand how to engineer
> facilities that deliver 99.9999% of the time.
Name one. :)
Water, electricity and telephones. Internet providers, on the other
hand, are working at four nines at best.
Electricity - not in my rural area a stone's throw from downtown
Milwaukee. :)
My T1 has been on 100% of the time since I got it four or five years
ago. The local power company, on the other hand, blips on us every 3 to
6 months with nary an excuse or logical reason.
Blips happen. Electrical distribution is a lot harder than it looks.
Otoh, I've hardly ever had the UPSes run completely down before the
power comes back on.
And they've had 100 years to get it right. Dereg has made them a bunch
of self-serving cheap-ass bast-ards who are more worried about covering
their own a@@ than delivering the goods.
You must have BIG UPSs. (separate thread, I bet.) :) Or maybe I just
need more than one $59 model from Wal-Mart for the four servers in the
basement. <rof'l>
The trick is to find that place who really can deliver five 9s. I've
used two different hosting companies, big names, folks you would think
have figured it all out, and I've had entire days of being down. I'm a
little nervous of trying out yet another company....
I'm considering picking a provider with a good rep, and looking for a
backup MX service, like those offered by DynDNS.
Considering, considering, considering.
Hey, anyone ever used ultradns?
Whil
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