Poor old Plusnet users

http://tinyurl.com/j5pc6

Broken again

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Edward Tattsyrup <ed.tattsyrup wrote:
> http://tinyurl.com/j5pc6
>
> Broken again
>

Seems to have been caused by a power outage at Telehouse North

Link here http://www.plus.net/supportpages.html?a=2

A

Any other ISP's been affected?

Dan

"Alan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Edward Tattsyrup <ed.tattsyrup wrote:
>> http://tinyurl.com/j5pc6
>>
>> Broken again
>>
>
> Seems to have been caused by a power outage at Telehouse North
>
> Link here http://www.plus.net/supportpages.html?a=2
>
> A

On 17/08/2006 at 13:22:53 Alan wrote :
> Seems to have been caused by a power outage at Telehouse North

No backup gens again, you would think their previous mistakes would
have had this sorted!

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Alan wrote:

> Edward Tattsyrup <ed.tattsyrup wrote:
> > http://tinyurl.com/j5pc6
> >
> > Broken again
>
> Seems to have been caused by a power outage at Telehouse North
>
> Link here http://www.plus.net/supportpages.html?a=2

It's called a 'single point failure'. Poor planning.

Graham

Edward Tattsyrup
> On 17/08/2006 at 13:22:53 Alan wrote :
>
>> Seems to have been caused by a power outage at Telehouse North
>
>
> No backup gens again, you would think their previous mistakes would have
> had this sorted!
>

Claranet/Netscalibur also affected.

Very full information on their status page as well.

Certainly not just Plusnet.

It seems to have been a problem on one phase and probably after the
generator input so there is noting anyone can do apart from having a
totally duplicate distribution all the way to teh servers - a
maintenance nightmare just to cover a rare (hopefully) fault.

Mike

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:53:55 +0100, m <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>It seems to have been a problem on one phase and probably after the
>generator input so there is noting anyone can do apart from having a
>totally duplicate distribution all the way to teh servers - a
>maintenance nightmare just to cover a rare (hopefully) fault.

Years ago I was working on systems that had power generation and
distribution triplicated. Now some services consider simple
duplication to be too expensive.

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EasyNN-plus. The easy way to build neural networks.
http://www.easynn.com

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:53:55 +0100, m <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>It seems to have been a problem on one phase and probably after the
>>generator input so there is noting anyone can do apart from having a
>>totally duplicate distribution all the way to teh servers - a
>>maintenance nightmare just to cover a rare (hopefully) fault.
>
> Years ago I was working on systems that had power generation and
> distribution triplicated. Now some services consider simple
> duplication to be too expensive.
>
> --
> Steve Wolstenholme Neural Planner Software
>
> EasyNN-plus. The easy way to build neural networks.
> http://www.easynn.com

Quote from Telehouse's website:
http://www.telehouse.net/
"Customers housing equipment at a TELEHOUSE Europe site enjoy all the
advantages of power resilience, temperature control, fire detection systems
and state of the art physical security systems, but at a reduced cost to
setting up and monitoring a facility themselves. TELEHOUSE Europe houses
most of the world's major providers giving customers greater choice and
flexibility."

Some power resilience!

Telehouse, by the way, is an independent, world-wide, Japanese-owned
company, providing ISPs with building space and security facilities for
their equipment. Plusnet is just one of their (presumably many) customers.

George

"Dan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Any other ISP's been affected?
>

Metronet which is part of PlusNet I know.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Years ago I was working on systems that had power generation and
> distribution triplicated. Now some services consider simple
> duplication to be too expensive.


That was before the lunatics (aka bean-counters) took over the asylum <g>
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