Datacenter Cooling Gone Bad

Matt sent over a link that describes a recent problem Level3 ran into in a London Datacenter.  The problem arose when one of their cooling units failed on a hot day.  Below is a graphic display of what happened during the course of the day:

Level3 Datacenter Temperatures

When the temperatures reached a certain level, servers began automatically going critical and shutting down to prevent hardware failure.  As many of you might have guessed, 1U-2U servers really are not built to sustain operation in a remotely warm room, and running without proper air conditioning can cause some pretty serious problems!

This is a perfect example of why WebHostingBuzz uses the N+1 redundant cooling method to significantly reduce the chances of something like this ever happening to our clients.