[ILUG] Hosting365 offline?

[Martin Pegman]

2008/12/9 Lisa Muir <34.24.34 at gmail.com>
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Brian O'Mahony
> <brian.omahony at curamsoftware.com> wrote:
> > Yeah I was sure it was them. I used to work next door to them, In
ParkWest business park
>
> I thought they were up in Kilcarberry park opposite DEG where they
> used to host from. Assumed they were still there.>
> > -- (im still in the park, but moved to a different company). The Park is
really badly designed
> > and laid out, and most importantly, has about 1/3 of the power required
for what is needed
> > per building. My old company was having full powercuts that would last
1hr to sometimes
> > 8hr outages.
>
> Funny when there are pylons and high tension cables running up the
> middle of park west!!
>
> > This was down to the fact the place was built by cowboys.
>
> Irish Broadband's network POP is in Park West, and they've never
> suffered this kind of blackout outage, so surviving there must be
> possible!
>

IBB's POP is the other end of the park. As far as I can make out Park West
has "light industrial"  purpose buildings like where InterXction is and
office buildings here H365 are.

> > I suppose a generator can only go for so long?
>
> According to H365's statements on the net from a 2006 outage, they
> have SLA's to get thousands of gallons of generator fuel to site to
> keep the place running indefinately on generator power, and were
> getting their own ESB substation built. Guess its like Garreth
> Fitzgerald said, thats fine in practice, but will it work in theory!
>
The do have their own sub station. I've seen it. But even after it was built
there were still power issues up that end of the park. Even with well less
than 100% occupancy in the office space the ESB were still trying
to adequately meter and reduce the load. However the most recent issue here
does not appear to be related as there was power in all the other offices
suring the outage.


> > So yeah, if you ever think of moving your business to ParkWest,
> > stay as far away from the idea as you possibly can
>
> Shiny new trainstation, ESB high tension cables there at the ready,
> ESB fiber network on a run of those same pylons, doesn't seem like a
> bad place to be to me ;-)
>
> Lisa.
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