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Environment and safety

Environment and safety

- [Narrator] Next we want to talk about keeping our servers safe from an environmental perspective. So the first thing is, let's talk about some of our HVAC issues, right? You want to make sure that you have an appropriate temperature in your server room. If your server room gets to be too hot, then your servers may be at risk of overheating and having problems that way, but believe it or not, if it were to get too cold in the server room and this is one that people are like, well wait a minute, I've been in server rooms and they're pretty cold. No, no, no, I'm talking about if you get down near freezing and things like that, then you could end up having condensation actually start to build up on your electronics and that's not a good thing either. So you want to make sure that you are very focused on having good temperature control in your server rooms. Along the same lines, you want to have good humidity control. If…

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