Originally Posted by
ridefar
And yet that was thee cause of the last 2 DL outages. And at least 1/3 if the outages I am familiar with. It is definitely not “absurdly “ low. People do dumb .... all the time. There are lots of ways to offline an entire DC.
If one of our data centers goes down, we have failover.
Originally Posted by
jc94
Some companies actually employ staff to go around turning things off randomly and checking the redundancies work.
Complete loss of an entire location, should also have a redundancy. Like a secondary location. And a plan to bring the primary one up again. UPS isn’t new tech.
We turn off each data center once yearly to make sure the failover happen properly. Obviously we schedule these tests at appropriate times to avoid disruptions.