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Should your servers sit in your own room or in a data centre? The five-year cost lines on both sides, the expenses people forget, and the five questions that settle it.
Equipment that powers up individually says nothing about how the room behaves. Here are the tests to run before accepting a server room, the readings to take, and what has to be written down.
Almost every watt that enters a server room leaves it as heat. How cooling capacity is calculated, why a second unit matters more than a bigger one, and where comfort air conditioning falls short.
A UPS cannot deliver the protection expected of it when the supply and the earthing behind it are wrong. Dedicated feeds, panel layout, real load figures and measured earthing, in order.
The one thing you cannot fix later in a server room is the room itself. What to check when choosing a space, which spaces to avoid, and how to prepare it before anything is installed.
Building a server room is a sequencing problem, not a shopping list. Here are the six stages, what each one produces, and the items that actually decide the schedule.
An attachment opened in accounts should not be able to stop a production line. When it can, the cause is a flat network — and the fix keeps your production data flowing.
Letting the machine builder dial in to fix a fault is reasonable. Leaving that door open for years is not. Here is the arrangement that grants access on request and logs every session.
A failed controller is swapped in hours, but the replacement arrives empty. If nobody can find the source project, the machine waits for the file rather than the part.
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