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I guess a lot of people are fine with the risk. Everybody uses it, so if, like, Gmail loses all the emails, we are then in such a state that the consequences will be more bearable and socially normal. Most people are fine with accepting that whatever future thing will happen to most people will also happen to them. Because then the consequences will also be normal. If the apocalypse comes, it comes for almost all of…
This sounds like the good old 1970-80s "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" argument.
If you pay for Google Services, they have an SLA (service level agreement) of 99.9% [1]. If their services are down more than 43 minutes this month[2], you can request “free days” of usage. Edit: Services were down from ~12:55pm to ~1:52pm, it's 57minutes. Thanks hiby007 [1] https://workspace.google.com/intl/en/terms/sla.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_c...
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Not OP, but how do you measure them? Let's say, for example, you can send and receive email, but attaching files does not work. Is the service up or down? What if the majority of your users can access the service, but one of your BGP peers is not routing properly and some of your users are unable to access?
In answer to your question, they'll accept evidence from your own monitoring system when you claim on the SLA. They pair that up to their own knowledge about how the system was performing, then make the grant.
Google are exceptionally good at this, from my experience. Far better than most other companies, who aim to provide as little detail as possible while getting away with 'providing an SLA'.
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Welp, as a new grad there, I had brought down one very important database server on a Sunday night (a series of really unfortunate events). Multiple senior DBAs had to be involved to resuscitate it. It started functioning normally just a few hours before market open in HK. If it was any later, it would have been some serious monetary loss. Needless to say, I was sweating bullets. Couldn't eat anything the entire day…
I'm so glad I'm not the only one feeling deployment anxiety. The project I'm involved in doesn't really have serious money involved, but when there's a regression found only after production deployment my stress levels go up a notch.
That was the only way to help people develop routine regarding big production deployments.
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What worries me the most is email. I basically don't use any other Google services other than Gmail and YouTube, but for email I really don't know of an alternative. Sure you can argue "move to Fastmail/Protonmail/Hey/whatever", but those can also go down on you just like Google is down now. And self hosting email is apparently not a thing due to complexity and having to forever fight with being marked as spam (ndr.:…
I'm running my own mail server, and I think anyone who has some experience with Linux should be able to do the same in a day or two. Once it's set up it just works. You can still use Gmail and fall back to connecting directly to your server if Gmail is down. Some mails might be flagged as spam if the IP/domain has no reputation, but that quickly passes, at least that's my experience.
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This topic just came up recently on a podcast I was on where someone said a large service was down for X amount of time and the service being down tanked his entire business while it was down for days. But he was compensated in hosting credits for the exact amount of down time for the 1 service that caused the issue. It took so long to resolve because it took support a while to figure out it was their service, not hi…
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This topic just came up recently on a podcast I was on where someone said a large service was down for X amount of time and the service being down tanked his entire business while it was down for days. But he was compensated in hosting credits for the exact amount of down time for the 1 service that caused the issue. It took so long to resolve because it took support a while to figure out it was their service, not hi…
So, anybody still feel like arguing that 'the cloud' is a viable back-up? Or is that a sore point right now? Just for a moment imagine: what if it never comes back again? Of course it will, - at least, it better - but what if it doesn't? And if it does, are you going to take countermeasures in case it happens again or is it just going to be 'back to normal' again?
What worries me the most is email. I basically don't use any other Google services other than Gmail and YouTube, but for email I really don't know of an alternative. Sure you can argue "move to Fastmail/Protonmail/Hey/whatever", but those can also go down on you just like Google is down now. And self hosting email is apparently not a thing due to complexity and having to forever fight with being marked as spam (ndr.:…