Great work on the update! 👍
More notes:
- There's currently only 1 power provider (GridPower Co.)
- PDUs can only be connected to 1 Power Feed (Power provider failover is not currently available)
- Larger PDU capacity's a requirement at Era 5
- UPSes have too little runtime to be useful
- Because of how time ticks hour-by-hour, a UPS will run out of charge (& the servers will lose power) before the generator could kick in.
Potential solutions:
- - (option 1) Increase UPS runtime to at least 2 hours
- - (option 2) Generators to be linked to Power Feeds (so they can detect if the Power Feed fails & kick in immediately)
- - (option 3) Create 'Battery Backup', & have it sit in between Power Feed & PDU. It should last at least 5 hours, & could have multiple options.
- Staff offers are rare (I've only seen 1 staff offer in 6 months)
- The 'Cable cut' & 'Regional blackout' events make it impossible to pass Era 5, since they affect ALL ISPs & Power providers & will crash your reputation to 0.
To achieve an uptime of > 99.5% OR a high reputation, you have to be lucky that 'Cable cut' doesn't happen.
- Customers below Gold cannot be allocated onto more than 1 rack.
When a 'Server Crash' happens, the customers in Basic + Bronze + Silver affect the whole Uptime stat, and I can't do anything about it & have to wait until the next month to try again.
Potential solutions:
- - (Option 1) Reuse Kubernetes into an unlockable platform module that can be spread onto multiple racks, that acts like a redundant server rack, & allow for Basic + Bronze + Silver clients to have both redundancy AND still only occupy 1 CPU.
- - (Option 2) Split the Uptime stat into separate uptime stats for each individual customer, or for each SLA tier (whichever's easier).