Eskom load shedding takes down Internet Solutions data centre

At the end of the day, we are stuck with them and it sucks. Why is it soo hard to have a plan in place to fix and make sure that the current setup is all good. Then I think, money is being giving to people to live like kings and they just blame away but NEVER FIX IT!! The joy of living in South Africa, the darkest Africa...
 
and this is a proper DC with A and B power feeds?

how can such a thing happen; its the one reason DC exist; maybe a generator failed and things not working right;

somebody gonna get sued big time over this little episode.......
 
eg2505 said:
and this is a proper DC with A and B power feeds?

how can such a thing happen; its the one reason DC exist; maybe a generator failed and things not working right;

somebody gonna get sued big time over this little episode.......
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ALL our realtime services went down during this time.
Busy doing some light reading into the SLA and other contracts now.
 
We're not a hosting company but we test our gennies regularly.... you'd think they'd do the same especially considering the situation
 
envo said:
We're not a hosting company but we test our gennies regularly.... you'd think they'd do the same especially considering the situation
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I think with Eskom's incompetence they are going to be getting a lot of opportunities to test...:whistle:
 
This day will be written to the history books as one of the worst Fridays EVER!!!!
 
Saw an MTN contractor as a Sasol over the weekend. Had a diesel trailer he was filling. When I left the cost was sitting at almost R 14k and still climbing. Says it was for the back up generators that needs a top up :eek:
 
Now it is even worse than '08.
I was working from offices at Dimension Data Campus during the load-shedding.
We had no issues with that - as they'd installed a massive generator shortly before the whole mess (Still wonder how they were so prescient)
Halfway though scheduled load-shedding, the head of IT support comes running past, shouting 'Save everything, the gennie's out of diesel!' Now he was a very professional gent, so seeing him act like that made everyone react. It seems someone had mixed up the schedule for the company that supplied the diesel for the generators, and by the time anyone noticed - we had about 5 minutes left.
4 minutes later the load shedding for that area was stopped - still have no idea who they phoned to do that, but seeing as they hosted servers for FNB to SARS..
 
this makes me think though.

al this generators costs - especially for mobile/banks /isp's, will probably have to be recovered from us.

we are most definitely not going to see pricing decreases on those any time soon
 
Neo_X said:
this makes me think though.

al this generators costs - especially for mobile/banks /isp's, will probably have to be recovered from us.

we are most definitely not going to see pricing decreases on those any time soon
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What about the supply chain for food, and all the fridges in food retailers running on Generators. That cost is going somewhere and its not out of their pockets.
 
Compton_effect said:
Now it is even worse than '08.
I was working from offices at Dimension Data Campus during the load-shedding.
We had no issues with that - as they'd installed a massive generator shortly before the whole mess (Still wonder how they were so prescient)
Halfway though scheduled load-shedding, the head of IT support comes running past, shouting 'Save everything, the gennie's out of diesel!' Now he was a very professional gent, so seeing him act like that made everyone react. It seems someone had mixed up the schedule for the company that supplied the diesel for the generators, and by the time anyone noticed - we had about 5 minutes left.
4 minutes later the load shedding for that area was stopped - still have no idea who they phoned to do that, but seeing as they hosted servers for FNB to SARS..
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Now that the cat is out of the bag.. Same thing at the DC happened, Apparently DD didn't keep their 24 hour diesel supplier contracts open after the load shedding in 2008 so the inevitable happened and we ran out of diesel very quickly and before we knew it we were on UPS power and the judgement call came to send the shutdown request to all servers. Which some servers didn't shut down in time so the breakers had to come down - Today was not a good friday.
 
envo said:
We're not a hosting company but we test our gennies regularly.... you'd think they'd do the same especially considering the situation
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Unfortunately all the testing in the world can't prevent failures. We test ours weekly, quarterly services by Barlow world power.. And we had the alternator on a 400kv genset blow up and catch fire during a routine test last year.

MTN business also lost their Rosebank dc yesterday. Primary and secondary gensets failed.

The costs alone are insane. I've signed off close to R80k worth of diesel since the beginning of November!
 
Lynx_ZA said:
Now that the cat is out of the bag.. Same thing at the DC happened, Apparently DD didn't keep their 24 hour diesel supplier contracts open after the load shedding in 2008 so the inevitable happened and we ran out of diesel very quickly and before we knew it we were on UPS power and the judgement call came to send the shutdown request to all servers. Which some servers didn't shut down in time so the breakers had to come down - Today was not a good friday.
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I don't know if I should laugh or cry.
 
All I can say is, The national blackout is coming sooner than we think. On thursday the gap between the demand and supply was 90 Mega watts. If one power station unit had to fail then the country would go into darkness and we are all pretty much doomed then. In my books, it's not even a case of If its going to happen, its a case of When.
 
All the testing in the world and you might still run into issues. Another thing to remember is that the diesel only has a storage life of 6 months. Its gets expensive to supply these big genny's with all this diesel. All these costs will be passed on to the consumer.
 
Wow, people are blaming companies with DC's who are doing their best during the sheistivalshedding.

Frankly, IS, DD and other DC providers are only able to do so much.

If the power is fubar for days on end, and the traffic lights aren't working, be glad that someone is at least making an attempt to keep your IP's working.

Way better than what Eskom's is doing.
 
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