> And surely, since you had been "implementing" this for four years now, you've TESTED what would happen if one of the three DCs went completely offline, right?

> And surely, since you had been "implementing" this for four years now, you've TESTED what would happen if one of the three DCs went completely offline, right??? They discussed this. They had been running tests were they disabled the high availability cluster in any of (and of two of) the three DCs. That test didn't involve disabling the rest of the (non-HA) services from PDX-04 DC (oops).