Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes this sort of thing makes public cloud unreliable for mission critical systems
Why? Dumb government censorship could also block your private cloud as well.
not really
Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder
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#22At some point google should consider offering a VPN service :)
I just discovered that they discontinued their VPN back on June 20th.
Somehow, I am not surprised.
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#23Italy (and many other European countries) could be great and wealthy countries once again, if only it wasn't for the witless bureaucrats in charge. The only thing we seem to be innovative at is coming up with ridiculous amounts of useless regulation.
Isn't Italy also the poster child for an unstable parliamentary system?
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#24The cloud is unreliable for mission critical systems
In my experience, a specific service in "The cloud" has an uptime similar to a single raspberry pi. Some services are more reliable, maybe upto three-nines.
If you design your systems as such - expecting them to fail, then using "the cloud" is fine. If a VM running in AWS goes down, fine, the ones in hertzner continue to work.
There's levels of availability you need -- what services can go down, in what geographic location, and for how long (do you need to go sub-second from all geographic locations? Because I'm not sure you can do that in any situations. On the other extreme are you happy with a TTL of 60 and failover to another IP, which barely counts as available in my book)
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? Dumb government censorship could also block your private cloud as well.
not really
If your connection to your private cloud passes through public internet, all bets are off. I don't think all companies have their private clouds at the basement level, completely owned data centers, connected via edge switches near the water cooler.
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#27>government getting private property snatched in transit by extending letters of marque to ISPs
Yep, that is piracy indeed, even if done under the figleaf of "privateering".
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#28Governments and ISPs should focus on improving how things work for the public and not make things worse. Seriously. Who are you working for?
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#30Italy (and many other European countries) could be great and wealthy countries once again, if only it wasn't for the witless bureaucrats in charge. The only thing we seem to be innovative at is coming up with ridiculous amounts of useless regulation.
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