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I will offer my translation services for their marketing copy: "Meticulously engineered and constructed to facilitate 270 Mac Pro servers per POD while occupyi
by patrickg_zill 13y ago
I will offer my translation services for their marketing copy:
"Meticulously engineered and constructed to facilitate 270 Mac Pro servers per POD while occupying only 12 square feet of datacenter floor space. "
means
"we have a cage in a datacenter with hot and cold aisles, and we bought off the shelf commercial racking and figured out how many we can fit in that racking"
"a pressurized environment allowing the Mac Pro servers to effortlessly draw in conditioned air from the central chamber, and expel it thru its unified thermal core. "
means
"the datacenter, as usual, has hot and cold aisles, so we will orient the Macs so they draw in chilled air from the big Lieberts and expel the heated air into the hot aisle; we will use blanking panels, custom cut styrofoam, or other materials to keep hot air from backwashing into the cold air aisle"
"Each server is provided redundant power, cooling, and a full Gigabit of Internet connectivity, all backed by live 24x7 support ensuring 100% uptime "
means
"we are relying on the datacenter's existing usual, typical power and cooling infrastructure, which is redundant of course; and, we will install 1 or more gigabit drops, with gigabit switches for each Mac to plug into"
(all pretty standard stuff in any DC)
"and the datacenter has remote hands capability, which we will use if needed" . Since we don't know exactly the nature of their 24x7 support, we don't know anything more.
100% uptime means only "in months that there isn't 100% uptime, you will get a credit on your bill". Check for exclusions they give themselves for maintenance windows.
- reeses 13y ago"ensuring 100% uptime" without an asterisk pointing to a 300-page list of exceptions is obviously hiding it deep in the T&Cs when signing up. The amusing part is that this sort of assurance has exactly the value you mentioned. You may be running your $20m business on this $50 service (Elvis help you), but if you're down for a month, the maximum you're going to get back is $50, and very likely only in the form of a service credit. I'm not sure if you looked at the other pages, because OMFG WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THE GODADDY STYLE IMAGERY, but you'll note they're using EMC "Clarion" SAN devices.