On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Luke S Crawford <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian Mathis <[email protected]> writes: >> It does put you at some risk, and the amount of the overage fee should >> be proportional to that risk. > > this is a risk to /other people's equipment./ - it's not just > a risk to me. and from what I've seen, almost everyone pushes it to the > hairy edge in situations where they charge per circuit rather than by > usage, so one person going over has a higher chance, I think, of killing > everyone else than you think.
I think you missed the point there. ALL of the risk is to *your business*, so you're the one who needs to mitigate it. When you go this route you also need to be monitoring the total circuit usage and if you see spikes or the general water mark getting too high, that's your cue to get a higher capacity circuit or move some systems to other circuits. You definitely need to be aware of the max possible draw of each device, so you know how much you can oversell each circuit, and based on your initial description, you're running a low margin business and there you must rely on walking that thin line. As already mentioned, you can get smart PSUs and some of them have the ability to shut down systems based on priority, in case someone goes over. There's probably a feature to shut down on specific port usage, but I would only activate that if you were in an "over" situation. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
