2006/06/23

low cost server co-location service

A data center offers 1/4 rack for server co-location services with 8 IP addresses and only charge HK$1,500 per month. I read carefully about the service level and spot this :

- 99.5% Uptime Guarantee:
- Proactive 24 X 7 monitoring system:
- Redundant power supplies:
- UPS Power Failure Backups:
- Multi Internet Backbones (Network Redundancy):

How can a data center only offer 99.5 % uptime guarantee.
This translates to 1.83 days or 44 hours in a year where service will not be available.

I can not accept such a service level.

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