Datacentre Battles Through Scorching Heat
By Adam Griffith, in Web Design, Web Development
Melbourne yesterday experienced scorching heat sending the CityPower grid down. Fortunately, our datacentre's backup power generators came to the rescue and no downtime was experienced.
The UPS systems and diesel generators worked perfectly when activated by the loss of mains power.
On a side note, there is 37 hours of Diesel Generator power available before refueling, and priority supply contracts with fuel vendors ensure that this load can be held up for extended outages of practically as long as required for mains grids to come back online. So even though there may be localised power outages, the rest of the world need not know about it with websites powering along as usual.