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We kept a data closet in Manhattan in a sister building to 33 Thomas. Customers would ask for a BRP. We had N+2 for data level stuff and higher but some customers would get hung up on not having second location. We took the stance if the facility fails we all have bigger issues.

We had one 18 minute issue in the ten years of use. It was the best facility we ever used.

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I remember in the late 90s/early 00s a lot of cases when sites would go down (everybody self-hosted) due to backhoe events and the like.

These companies weren't idiots: they had replication for their databases and leased redundant transmission service because they knew this kind of thing could happen. The problem is you'd buy transmission from two providers...whose fiber turned out to be in the same conduit, or even both had rented bandwidth on the same fiber.

At least people are smarter these days, and with widespread cloud service there are fewer people who need to keep track of this stuff.

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