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Originally Posted by newsprout
This should be something which can be controlled. You should be covered by the datacentre's UPS's (uninteruptible power supplies) which manage the power coming into the DC and they should switch over seemlessly to battery and then generator power if there is a drop in main's power...thus avoiding any downtime whatsoever.
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Sadly if you have been following developments lately you'd know that doesn't always happen, with both Primus and Equinix suffering from power related outages in the past couple of months.
But in theory... UPSes are a wonderful thing.. when they work!!
