So, As a reminder a few years back Amazon had a similar situation back east. (I forget which location) The utility power went off and one of the Generators was not working correctly. Before they were able to get it fixed the UPS Juice went out and a section of servers went off-line. A few minutes later power was returned. (Either utility or generator I don't recall) But it took apx 1 day to get most the servers (And Virtual servers on them) back online. However there was some servers / virtual servers that were not recoverable. From my experience loss of power on a single machine generally doesn't hurt the machine to badly. However when you have Hundreds go off-line there are bound to be a few with issues. It just seems to be that way. Also I do not Fault HE or Linode for only have Grid + Generator. However I bet there are some UPS in there too. People tend to believe that there is just so much redundancy that how could a thing happen. People need to see reality and as mentioned before you do get what you pay for. However most people do not want to pay for tons of redundancy. And even when you do I foresee there are things that can still take you down. If there is more to the story sure I would like to hear as well. But honestly I am guessing it was a failure with no foul play happening. Sincerely, Mark On 5/31/2015 7:44 AM, Greg Ihnen via Outages wrote:
There must be more to the story because the equipment on a particular generator seems to have gotten damaged, no?
Greg
On May 31, 2015 9:39 AM, "Alex Forster via Outages" <outages@outages.org <mailto:outages@outages.org>> wrote:
The redundancy was grid + generator. Unfortunately both failed.
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On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Frank Bulk via Outages <outages@outages.org <mailto:outages@outages.org>> wrote:
Are suites tied to just one generator?
Unless things have changed since I was last there, yes. HE do not offer redundant power (at least, not at FMT2).
HE offer a great price point, but as the saying goes, you get what you pay for!
Scott
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