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My co-location provider's data center has had about four hours of downtime in ten years. It turns out a backup diesel generator, redundant connectivity, and a g
by barkingtoad 14y ago
My co-location provider's data center has had about four hours of downtime in ten years. It turns out a backup diesel generator, redundant connectivity, and a good network/sysadmin are all anyone needs.
People are now working out how to failover from AWS to Rackspace and that is infuriating to me. You... you need redundant clouds now? That can't be right!
- acdha 14y agoYou're comparing different things: most of the complaints about AWS have been due to servers (EC2) or network storage (EBS) failing. The outage in March was networking related so that would count, however.
- donavanm 14y agoWhy do you assume amazon doesn't have " a backup diesel generator, redundant connectivity, and a good network/sysadmin"? And if they do have that why is your situation different?
- barkingtoad 14y agoYou tell me man. I guess the difference is I can install many more times more server horsepower for the $500/month rental of a half rack at my colo, and the result will be better uptime than EC2. I just can't install them immediately.