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Originally Posted by AdultKing
A properly set up data centre should be able to replicate it's operations in the event of a 100% failure in a reasonable length of time.
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this is why companies like sungard who specialize in services like charge what they charge.
A simple 500/month machine with someone like mojo, natnet or us would easily run you 2k/month+ under sungard.
If you look at your average adult focused hosting company and then look at a mainstream focused management company. The two extremes are different than what you would think. A simple dual quad with raid and 100Mbps in adult will run you 400-700/month. Rackspace/another higher end mainstream focused management company will charge 400-700 just for the box and in many cases 1k+, and then your looking at easily 10-40Mbps on banwdith on top of it.
What a lot of users fail to realize is the true cost behind the scenes that is involved in running a managed services company. People cost money, equipment and software costs money and building/space costs money.
As RCN mentioned the backup system they have in place, much like many other providers have in place are probably built around 50-100 machines per back up node, depending on hardware involved, and even then with 100 machines hitting that box each night you better schedule them carefully. These systems are not designed to mass restore dozens of machines at once. No way no how.
If someone ever wants to see how DR is done and the real costs involved. Just go lookup on google DR services and ask for a quote and see whats involved.