[ale] Collocating non-rackable boxen

[Dow Hurst]

James,
What UPSes do you purchase for the machines that run off of the 
generator?  Or do you just use conditioner's?  My experiences with 
generators would be that they would kick in, the power would be dirty, 
and would require conditioning and usually more than that.  A real 
dropout occurs between power blackout and the generator getting going so 
a UPS is usually needed.  I've found the APC SmartUPS will play nice 
with a dirty generator but that the Tripplite Smart UPSes would 
sometimes not.  Thanks,
Dow


James P. Kinney III wrote:
>How big of a pipe do you need? I have recently added a 15kw automatic
>backup generator to supply power to my micro-colo/hosting setup. I
>currently have two DSL lines for an aggregate upload speed of 1.536Mb.
>
>
>On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 16:51 -0400, John Wells wrote:
>  
>>Guys,
>>
>>For years, I've run a web server and email server out of my home over a
>>DSL connection from a mid-tower (Athlon 900mhz, 512MB).  I've been happy
>>with th experience and it has been enough to fulfill my needs and handle
>>web sites for a few of my friends' companies as well.
>>
>>My only problem with this set up is power failures...everything about it
>>has been very stable, but a power failure when I'm out of town quickly
>>reveals its fragile nature.
>>
>>So, in the last two weeks, I've transitioned over to a virtual private
>>server.  It's on a big AMD 64 bit machine and has a guaranteed amount of
>>256 MB ram (with gigabytes worth of burstable ram), which sounds ok, but
>>I'm starting to think it might be a little oversold.  It's slow at times,
>>certain webapps (web mail like squirrelmail for example, which open a LOT
>>of imapd connections) slow it quite a bit, and it's memory capabilities
>>are suspect.  For example, with ab, I can crash Apache using 300
>>concurrent connections for just 600 total attempts.  My old Athlon happily
>>chugs along with three times this amount.  I've yet to crash it.
>>
>>So, I'm not so happy.  Ideally, I want my old server back but on a more
>>reliable power supply.
>>
>>Is there a company out there that does affordable collocation of
>>non-racked PCs?  I can't spend a lot (the VPS is $45/month), but would
>>love to drop this guy somewhere with a reliable power supply and adequate
>>pipe.
>>
>>Any suggestions are appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>John
>>
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