On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 11:25 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On Wednesday February 24th, at 6pm UTC time, the DC hosting some of > the CentOS equipments used for various roles had suffered from > multiple electricity power outages. The facility was completely dark > for just under 2 hrs, and we were able to start recovering services by > 8pm UTC. By midnight we had most services restored, by 2:00AM UTC Feb > 25th we had all services restored. No emergency diesel generators ? I live in an area, having an unpublicised nationally strategic telecoms hub, with 9+ discrete data centres within 1.5 km of a power station (linked by dedicated underground cable to another power station) yet each data centre has at least one diesel generator. Resilience seems to be their motto. -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.