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When will the rest of the industry start to bundle a battery on every server, a la laptops and Google servers, so that PDU glitches like this would be no big de
by vicaya 17y ago
When will the rest of the industry start to bundle a battery on every server, a la laptops and Google servers, so that PDU glitches like this would be no big deal?
- showerst 17y agoHonest question, would a normal battery be able to keep a decent server running through a 5 minute outage? I was under the impression that google adds something like 9v's to last a few seconds through a flicker, not any sustained outage. (And all of that's assuming your network stack stays up, and things like routers/firewalls survive...)
- jrockway 17y agoThe idea is not to be reachable during the outage, it's to avoid filesystem corruption, not lose data in memcached, etc. These things are recoverable, of course, but if you can avoid them for the cost of a $2 battery... then why not?
- mmt 17y agoNever, I hope. As someone who actually touches the hardware in datacenters, ever, I'd like not to have the added fire and hazmat risk of that much lithium and non-EPSable power everywhere.