>>*snip*
>>>We've lost less than 40 hours of uptime due to server failure in just
>>>under 10 years of in-house operation, and we have some of the flakiest power in the state of CT...
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>>Just where in CT are you located? We have a customer in Thompson (extreme NE corner) whose lights used to flicker everytime the phone rang. They had all sorts of problems with under voltage (103v out of the wall). Major problem until we finally convinced them that ALL computers on their system needed to have UPS's. UPS's still kick in about a dozen times a day...
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>We're on the Trumbull/Monroe border near the intersection of 25 and 111 (next to the State of CT's winter sandbox.)
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>103v is a good day. Even the power company cringes when we insist that they hook up a recording meter...

Yeah, it took alot of convincing to get them to hook one up. Once they did that, and the undervoltage became obvious, the UPS's were an easy sell for the customer. It's been a couple of years since I was at that customer's site, but they didn't even have TouchTone service available out there. Right over the border in MA, everything was state of the art. Even the little cabins near the lake with all the G's in it.