| Cheaper, but no power back up. Is your hurricane weather proof and can withstand tornado's and hurricanes? It cost more for co-location because they have back up solutions which prevents a lot more down time. |
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bn1221
join:2009-04-29
Cortland, NY | If its fiber fed, it might work in a hurricane. Our MetroE worked in a county wide powe routage. The NOC had power and my server room has generator so the internet was up. Most of my clients weren't..but I was |
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That's provided the Colo decides to put their fuel pumps above the flood plane. |
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 MoracCat god
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
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Fiber does work during an outage (assuming the distribution source has power). Some people I know have been without power for a week. They have a generator and are able to watch their FIOS TV and use the Internet.
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| reply to battleop
Also provided the Colo has tested their APS and Generators recently(down 8 hours recently due to this failure). |
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| You try keeping a power hungry data server running with no power for a month or two. |
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BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH | reply to battleop
LOL. Cheap shot but true. |
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