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Michael Mortimore wrote: > > You could set up something to remotely power cycle it for you. My last call to a remote data centre was something along the lines of.... "Machine A can't talk to machine B. Both have working IP stacks, neither report their own ethernet connections as failing. Can you check the cable between the two switches involved?" We had managed to remotely diagnose exactly the right problem, but sometimes hands and eyes on the ground are the only way to fix such things. But I don't think location is that important for many customers of data centers, heck the guy I was asking to check our switch was in San Francisco. Although presence is more crucial when it is more than just one box that is being hosted. These days with network storage, and big virtualisation providers, there is little need to host individual servers (although folks still do). Locality isn't the way to do it, the big rack mount box providers will preinstall basic OS, and ship it to the data centre of your choice, where you complete the installation remotely. Although these days, people buying that sort of service might as well get a virtual server, and let someone else worry about hardware. As such I think a "carbon neutral" data centre wants to be located somewhere with a plentiful supply of (reliable) green electricity, and I think Devon is out, unless they build the Severn tidal barrier. I doubt Wind farms will hack it, although I guess if it were big enough, and sold electricity to the grid when it had surplus.... Geologically stable regions with plenty of green electricity -- hmm tidal barrier (France), or solar power (North Africa or Spain maybe), or am I missing something? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html