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0.05% of one year is 4 hours, 22 minutes and 48 seconds.
Reddit experienced some issues with Amazon a month ago that resulted in the site being down for almost a day. I'm pretty sure they're way below that percentage.
A couple of hours into the failure, and no sign of coverage on Techcrunch (they're posting "business" stories though). It shows how detached Techcrunch has become from the startup world. Edit: I tweeted their European editor about it and he's posted a story up now.
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Actaully, I'm on the couch in front of the fireplace, watching old SNL, waiting patiently for Amazon to fix their shit, and figuring out how we can not use EBS anymore.
A couple of years ago you had expressed interest in making a port to App Engine, any interest in doing that still? Want any help? ;)
Being unable to get much done here, my co-workers have found other things to do in the office: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1-oGxDHQbI :-P
I just launched a site on Heroku yesterday and cranked up the dynos up in anticipation of some "launch" traffic. Now, I can't log in to switch them off. Thanks EC2, you owe me $$$s
Actually, I'd expect Heroku to not charge for when the site was down, as they are clearly not available, it does not sound fair if they charge for it. Am I expecting too much from them?
Silver lining: Hopefully I can test my "aws is failing" fallback code. (my GAE based site keeps a state log on S3 for the day when GAE falls in a hole.)
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I can access all my heroku apps that have their own DNS. Anything with a .heroku.com subdomain is down for me. Frustrating, knowing that the apps are still running but aren't routable.
Yay, cloud.
If you actually wish to make a useful point about the practicality or otherwise of massively virtualised systems for webapp deployment, please do. It's going to take more than two words though.
So when big sites deal use Amazon Web Services for major traffic, do they get a serious customer relationship? Or is it just generic email/web support and a status page?
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Poor analogy; if the lifts break, just use the stairs. Note that I've written "relying", as in "depending on the cloud without any alternative backup". Depending on the cloud means depending on something you cannot influence.
The building analogy works. If you're in a highrise, no elevator service is going to impact your business. The back analogy works too. If you're an oil company, Goldman Sachs, AT&T or something similar, you have the bucks to pay someone for an empty emergency office complex for critical staff. If you're anyone else, you're screwed when the elevators break/street floods/bridge falls down. That doesn't mean that buying…
A better analogy would be setting up a retail shop on a busy street where every now and then, the police completely close off the street, and when you ask them why they've done it, they tell you that it's none of your concern.
Yet, people still continue to open shops on this street, that is, until the customers start going somewhere else.