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Reality call: ANY and ALL Cloud services, be it Google, Azure, AWS etc, will be down for hours at some point every few years.
Reality call: ANY and ALL services, be it local or remote, will be down for hours at some point every few years.
Judging by how cloud services "frequently" go down when everything is normal, it makes me wonder what would happen in case of a real problem (volcano eruption, social unrest, nuclear disaster, alien invasion ...). I still don't get the cloud infatuation, and no you don't have to get off my lawn, I'm "only" 36 (yeah I know, in IT I'm already a dinosaur).
The idea of cloud storage being down is less of an issue - I don't like it, but I understand it. What bothers me about this is: 1. I was never notified of the outage. I noticed it myself when attempting to log into one of my VMs and then started looking for status updates. Sadly, the best status updates I got were here on Hacker News. 2. When my servers did come back up, at least one of my IP addresses had changed, w…
2. Azure does not guarantee that you keep your ip address by default. You should configure a cname if you use Azure Websites or get a reserved ip address, available with Cloud Services
The idea of cloud storage being down is less of an issue - I don't like it, but I understand it. What bothers me about this is: 1. I was never notified of the outage. I noticed it myself when attempting to log into one of my VMs and then started looking for status updates. Sadly, the best status updates I got were here on Hacker News. 2. When my servers did come back up, at least one of my IP addresses had changed, w…
Do you having monitoring setup on your cloud vm, because you should have alerts triggering emails to notify you when this is happening. Secondly, you are using an IP address and expecting that to be static? The recommended approach is to use a CNAME so you don't hit that issue, alternatively, you can have up to 5 Reserved-IPs per subscription and attach that Reserved-IP to your VM : New-AzureReservedIP from powershel…
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On site disaster recovery? Off site disaster recovery? Split your hosting between multiple providers? It really depends on how much risk you're willing to accept, and how much that is worth to you. It can be quantified via revenue lost, but reputation is much harder to put a number on.
If I had to quantify this - 3 hours * 3 people who can't work and publish posts + about a week of marketing costs for damaged rep (apologies, PR, ads for exposure). I'd say that for the very least this cost us at least 1000$ and probably north of 3000$. This is not the first time this has happened in the last two months (after a relatively reliable year). The problem is I'm not sure any other hosting provider would d…
Be mad at the service provider if they don't live up to the number of nines they promised. Be mad at yourself if you expected more nines than they can deliver.
I feel like an idiot. MS featured my Azure startup today, quoting me about overall stability etc (which has been the case for us, until today). They then proceeded to go down, taking all our production systems with them. (yes we do have AWS, too) Sigh.
Azure has had quite a few outages this year. I'd say it's already lower than that 99.999 percent uptime or w/e they are advertising.
Reality call: ANY and ALL Cloud services, be it Google, Azure, AWS etc, will be down for hours at some point every few years.
Reality call: ANY and ALL services, be it local or remote, will be down for hours at some point every few years.
If you're using your own servers, or even VPS, you do have control over infrastructure, and can plan for changes and mitigate problems quickly, and you can run for years without downtime if nothing is changing significantly. Depending on your staff, funding, etc that might be attractive or not. Each has its own advantages, and disadvantages.
Azure support is probably the worst one I had ever deal with. When my account (and service itself) stopped working, I haven't received any email. When I tried to sign in, all I got was some generic error saying "There's something wrong with your account". My services of course were down and I couldn't do ANYTHING. I've contacted the support to learn that my account has been blocked (!) because there was some suspicio…
Days? What do you "days"???? Azure was down for like 9 hours.
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I had a similar situation with DigitalOcean. Droplets were taken offline with no notification whatsoever, only answered after I submitted a ticket. This has happened to me twice.
Why were they taken offline? I had a droplet taken offline for security reasons once and they were very communicative and responsive.
I feel like an idiot. MS featured my Azure startup today, quoting me about overall stability etc (which has been the case for us, until today). They then proceeded to go down, taking all our production systems with them. (yes we do have AWS, too) Sigh.
Just curious - if you have AWS too, then why did it take everything down? Can't you just swap the DNS?
We're changing that now, will need to replicate across different cloud providers, too. We're changing a lot because of last night's outage.