Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.
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Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.
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Re: Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.
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Re: Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.
#3I tried Microsoft Azure for a month because I received free credits via their BizSpark program. I can confidently say their uptime is the worst I have ever seen. Nearly daily servers would loose access to disks and switch to read-only mode. Also, they lack any ability to snapshot backup servers, which is a basic requirement of a cloud platform.
I know its early, and they are just starting, but I just don't have confidence in Azure. Stick with AWS, Linode, Softlayer.
Re: Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.
#4I tried Microsoft Azure for a month because I received free credits via their BizSpark program. I can confidently say their uptime is the worst I have ever seen. Nearly daily servers would loose access to disks and switch to read-only mode. Also, they lack any ability to snapshot backup servers, which is a basic requirement of a cloud platform. I know its early, and they are just starting, but I just don't have confi…
When was it? We actually have great experience and great uptime with Azure. It's a very unique case for us.
Re: Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.
#5I tried Microsoft Azure for a month because I received free credits via their BizSpark program. I can confidently say their uptime is the worst I have ever seen. Nearly daily servers would loose access to disks and switch to read-only mode. Also, they lack any ability to snapshot backup servers, which is a basic requirement of a cloud platform. I know its early, and they are just starting, but I just don't have confi…
When was it? We actually have great experience and great uptime with Azure. It's a very unique case for us.
Are you running Linux or Windows? This was June/July.
Re: Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
When was it? We actually have great experience and great uptime with Azure. It's a very unique case for us.
Are you running Linux or Windows? This was June/July.
We're running on their table storage from web roles and worker roles (their platform-as-a-service)
Re: Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.
#7I can recommend trying AppHarbor - we're striving to deliver a better .NET and Windows cloud platform. Feel free to shoot me an email (rs@appharbor.com) if there's anything I can help with.
Re: Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.
#8What is the extent of this outage? There isn't much info on Twitter or elsewhere. The Azure service status dashboard shows an issue impacting "Storage [South Central US]". Is that service like S3 or EBS or something entirely different?
Re: Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.
#9I love this, it's refreshing. Every time something goes down, I see a flood of hate and a torrent of comments suggesting everyone move somewhere else. That, coupled with HN's hate of MSFT, makes this one of the most refreshing posts I've seen in some time. And sensible.
Respect to you, my friend :).
Re: Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.
#10I can recommend trying AppHarbor - we're striving to deliver a better .NET and Windows cloud platform. Feel free to shoot me an email (rs@appharbor.com) if there's anything I can help with.
AppHarbor is fantastic. I can't stress this enough. I've deployed three MVC3 applications on there already and they work effortlessly.
My workflow is:
1. Write code on dev machine.
2. hg push to BitBucket.
3. AppHarbor hook reads new push from BitBucket and compiled on their service.
Simple quick and easy deployment!
Once thing I wish they would offer is free domains like Heroku does. Hopefully this is a feature they enable in the future.