Web hosting provider Aplus.net said today that it had remained online throughout a
12-hour power outage [1] in San Diego on May 20-21. “There were no surprises because we are always prepared for this sort of things,” said Ivan Vachovsky, CEO of Aplus.Net. “Our subsystems and the backup generator in our data center are routinely tested and kept in top working order.”
That’s how it’s supposed to work, and what the customers are paying for, right? Sure. but no matter how many times you test the equipment, there’s nothing routine about an extended power outage, which is why hosting companies issue press releases when backup systems perform as expected. Staying online through blackouts and disasters is a critical piece of data centers’ USP (unique selling proposition), and the “we stayed online” press release sends an important message to self-hosted businesses whose web sites were unavailable for 12 hours.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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