Diesel Generator

A diesel-powered generator used by hosting companies as a back-up source to generate electricity in the event of a power outage. This is a very common feature at most web hosting data centers to provide the ultimate in redundancy. Many data centers are also equipped with dual power sources coming from two different points on the cities power grid to provide yet another level of redeundancy.

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