[Nottingham] Office server rooms

[Barry Fox]

Hi all,

I couldn't help but respond, so please do excuse the interjection.

If anybody is looking for anything hosted or colocation space within
Nottingham do get in touch. I have moved on from my previous employer and I
am now at CWCS Managed Hosting over in Beeston.

You can catch me on bfox at cwcs.co.uk or 0115 740 1234.

Again apologies but due to the subject matter thought I would reach out.

Regards

Barry


On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, 01:27 Andy Smith via Nottingham, <
nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> You would only be able to argue for some sort of compensation if
> your lease has an SLA for aircon failures. Virtually no office space
> leases do, even for tech offices, even if they include a
> pre-partitioned "machine room" space.
>
> Such a thing is generally a separate partitioned space, that is not
> physically secure (e.g. you could lift a floor or ceiling tile and
> get in, or just kick the partition down), and simply has an air con
> unit in it that is set to a lower temperature than the other ones in
> the office.
>
> If wanting to try to approximate a data centre in office space, you
> would generally at least need to be in control of the air con and
> be able to install your own UPSes as there most likely won't be any
> SLA on power uptime or time to repair either.
>
> Going beyond "reasonable effort" can be hard even when you own the
> building, let alone when you are just renting a generic office. If
> in the position of renting office space and wanting to run servers
> in it for any reason, accept that you will have very little control
> over the infrastructure and may have to put up with multi-day
> outages of network, power and aircon.
>
> Even in purpose-built datacentres, at the low end you may find there
> are no SLAs for temperature. I once went to Telehouse London and
> found the rack I needed to work in was completely encased in
> chipboard, leaving it with no access to the cold aisle. Telehouse
> had done this with no warning. They needed to do some
> building work in the suite which was going to put out a lot of dust.
> Instead of clearing everyone out of the suite, doing the work and
> then re-populating it, they opted to protect people's hardware by
> boxing it up while it was still running. Granted, this no doubt
> avoided some hardware failures from dust entering the fan intakes,
> and relocating every rack would have been very expensive, but did
> mean a lot of machines were at dangerously high temperatures for
> over a week.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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