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Too scary for me. Who decides what is essential and non-essential? Is it worth risking thousands or millions of dollars worth of equipment sitting on the commer
by jsz0 16y ago
Too scary for me. Who decides what is essential and non-essential? Is it worth risking thousands or millions of dollars worth of equipment sitting on the commercial power grid without conditioning? In case of natural disasters you have to accept the reality you could be without commercial power for a long period of time. Might work for Yahoo's architecture but I'd be more comfortable with a more traditional approach myself. If you have a somewhat power efficient data center a small UPS/generator is pretty cheap. I'm guessing they're doing this more for environmental concerns than cost.
- maukdaddy 16y agoYou can have power conditioning without a UPS per se. Most businesses, and I'm saying this as a former consultant, greatly overestimate what systems are truly critical. Each group within a large company wants to claim their systems are the most critical to the business, but in reality, very few systems need to be up 24x7.