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January 03, 2006
Outage, part III
More power failures during the night. When I woke up this morning the clocks were all flashing.
Nath said I was exaggerating to say we get one power cut per month on average. She may be right if we count each group of outages in 24 hours as one cut. Often when we get one, though, we get several. For example, yesterday evening we had at least a half dozen. If you count them individually, I'm fairly certain we get one a month on average.
Our electicity does not provide five 9s of availability. In software and computer hardware, when you want high availability you use redundancy to prevent a single point of failure from causing a service to disappear. Maybe there's not a good way of doing that on the part of the electric grid that reaches Barraux.
Posted by Mark at January 3, 2006 06:50 AM
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