From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 20 2:52:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from beta.root-servers.ch (beta.root-servers.ch [195.49.33.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAAD437B401 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 02:52:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 22353 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2001 10:52:28 -0000 Received: from dclient106-31.hispeed.ch (HELO WORK) (62.2.106.31) by beta.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 20 Feb 2001 10:52:28 -0000 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:54:12 +0100 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.49) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <48511797606.20010220115412@buz.ch> To: "Bryan Bunch" Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Redundancy... In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Bryan, Monday, February 19, 2001, 7:26:34 PM, you wrote: > Dave, > We would want to co-locate 4-5 boxes (all FreeBSD & 1 NT). One box is a DB > server (MySQL) and the others are web servers. We currently are no co-locating. > All of our boxes are currently under our roof along with the bandwidth (2 > T-1's). As we found out, the biggest point of failure that we have is if there > is an extended power outage at our location. If that is really the biggest concern, I'd advise to go for a decent colocation. Most of them nowadays have massive generators and site UPS, but if you have enough spare rack space, a custom UPS for your servers to cover the first few minutes can't hurt. Ask em to show you their power connections if you feel they might be telling you bluesky... Best regards, Gabriel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.0.2i iQEVAwUBOpI+yMZa2WpymlDxAQGUygf/WOJAgBjE4mIwjiQS2Mzf3I0Gr7yxL4FF YuDWNTTGjLQmFk8fqtZOTFJixyQYwS7CRGO3yV8Nn9NmIxkUV3pz9vnoxfSFA7iH FEZs04Y8Vw7vUPcuLpVgGbI81wIPfwgh3nijRTLmMcVYhtGUKgNYg+vvKFeOa4Bb irYpcxAEh7dw69EAcyIWzl7kdMHF5BrKLa8ZUB5bytfOv3aa5bryKu+14LkaNXn4 V3mJq1XATFudesIgEHoEBNLWAwHVaqvm6OvHCdi0YuvLtfXg+TFy4trZJtjaTViG roD1N5bPzKuV+5WeKhb3si7GHkXJZ3VWxH0YhQ38Fdy+JodYFd73Cw== =8aTG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message