Tonights downtime

Sorry about that - report will follow.

the whole net is kinda broken though isn't? everything seems slow tonight!

Maybe Gaz has been waving an angle grinder near his internet connection

Ok - here goes:

Datacentre were doing a test of their UPS system - it failed.

I don't know what more I can say, except I wanted to go to bed 2 hours ago, but now I'm so angry I just can't relax ... grrr

PMSL - testing the UPS

that more of a ****up then i think we have ever made in our company

Hehe - if you imagine just a little UPS box it is quite amusing ... lol

That's two major screw ups in as many months now - one more and it might be time to move again

"alright, who said this would ****ing work?!"

It's only a big battery, how hard can it be to make it work?

Maybe they put it in the wrong way round

titter ye not.....

imagen your wardrobe stuffed full of batteries, we have 4 of them at work to support 50 or so servers, now try and figure out how many wardrobes you would need to support a datacentre with hundreds if not thousands of servers.....

easy peasy, just do a power consumption type calculation. and then add what, 20% capacity for startup?

That's what Ben pays them so much money for - to get it right first time, every time