Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Jean-François Mezei wrote: > >> The thing about a carrier hotel is that it cannot be a secret location >> since you need to allow various carriers and ISPs to have physical >> access to the building so they can install/manage their >> servers/routers/switches. >> >> The advantage of this swedish data centre is that even if its location >> is well known, it is pretty hard to harm the building. You can't run a >> truck full of explosives into it for instance. > > Unfortunately, you also cannot run your own fiber there, colo > equipment there, visit it for any reason, etc. > > I was going to say 'this probably hinders customers adoption at > NetNod', but I know for a fact the "probably" is superfluous. >
Fault free datacenters include neither people, nor computers, nor connectivity, nor HVAC, nor electricity. If you can eliminate those things you will have a 100% uptime datacenter. Andrew