Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 13:13:54 -0500 From: "Troy Settle" <st@i-plus.net> To: "FreeBSD ISP" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: uptimes, Woo Hoo Message-ID: <FNEMIHIFMKFBMDBKFDPBIEILCAAA.st@i-plus.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001051103050.29990-100000@nathanm.office.socket.net>
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Our power is fairly stable, but it does go out on occasion. The last outage we had lasted about 12 hours. Our UPS (Matrix 3000) only held out for about 6 hours :( I'm trying to get a generator, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen any time soon. -Troy ** -----Original Message----- ** From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG ** [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of n8 ** Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 12:04 PM ** To: Kurt Jaeger auf Mailinglisten ** Cc: Willem Jan Withagen; oppermann@pipeline.ch; isp@FreeBSD.ORG ** Subject: Re: uptimes, Woo Hoo ** ** ** WOW. Must be nice... ** I loose power for longer than one hour usually, and it happens every 1-3 ** MONTHS. I'm starting to feel good about my 75 day uptimes. :) ** ** Vae ** ** ** On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Kurt Jaeger auf Mailinglisten wrote: ** ** > Hi! ** > ** > On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 10:56:49AM -0600, n8 wrote: ** > > > obcore$ uptime ** > > > 7:53AM up 845 days, 10:12, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, ** 0.00, 0.00 ** > > > obcore$ ** > ** > > Are you guys on some sort of special powergrid or something? ** > ** > It's called the european power grid, a large, interconnected grid ** > of almost all power plants in Europe, from Norway down to Italy. ** > ** > Pretty robust. We also have UPSs, but this particular server is ** > not connected to one. Why ? Answer: Because up to now, it was ** > not the power grid that failed, but the UPS (most of them from APC, ** > where does their reputation is coming from ?). ** > ** > In the future, only systems with two seperate power supplies ** > that connect to two different UPSs make any sense to me. Too expensive ** > for all equipment, but well... ** > ** > ** > ** > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ** > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message ** > ** ** ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ** with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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