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Uptime Institute tiers

Also called Tier III, Tier IV, Tier III data center

A widely used rating of data center reliability, from Tier I, with basic capacity and no redundancy, to Tier IV, which is fault tolerant. Tier III sites can be maintained without shutting down.

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