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Re: Looking for recommendations for Datacenter off CA Faultline

  • From: Curtis Maurand
  • Date: Mon Jul 19 22:08:08 2004


Lots of stuff from Wall Street Financial houses set up their backups in Kansas City.

There's a nice little data center in Portsmouth, NH. I used to work there. http://www.worldpath.net (8 hours away by most airlines.) :-)

Curtis

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Curtis Maurand
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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 [email protected] wrote:



 A company I work with (who's servers are located in the San Jose, CA)



is



looking to setup some backup servers at a datacenter whose connectivity



and



location is off any faultline, or away from other malady, that



mighteffect its



main servers datacenter or connectivity. Problem is, they also want them



as



physically close as possible.



Not possible and risky too. The effect of a quake can be worse
further from a faultline. You need to take a look at some maps
of earthquake risk based on the soil type and underlying geology.

Or do what the banks do and set up the backup site in
Sacramento. It's not that far.




 It does me no good to go to a datacenter whose connectivity also comes
from the same peeing points or fiber that would be effected or take down



a



data center in South Bay. Despite being off faultline.



This has been all worked out for you by other people who
sited their data centers in Sacramento eons ago.

--Michael Dillon