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Underground cables have many problems like rats (and other vermin) or people harvesting copper/metals.
Really? Rats and copper harvesters? Like it's gonna be some unprotected plastic cables 1 foot under the ground?
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Or as the religious people call it, "The Act of God". No seriously, people actually write that shit in their terms. Hilarious.
It's a legal term with a specific meaning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God
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No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.
Or as the religious people call it, "The Act of God". No seriously, people actually write that shit in their terms. Hilarious.
MASSIVE Storms in VA area where us-east-1 is. 326,000 customers without power already, worst lightning I have seen in my 20 years of life. Sky is intense blue/green/purple. This is most likely what the issue is
No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.
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i think netflix ceo just signed up for a rackspace account
You're joking, but I bet Netflix's Asgard system gets support for OpenStack pretty quickly now...
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Really? Rats and copper harvesters? Like it's gonna be some unprotected plastic cables 1 foot under the ground?
I don't know but I've heard stories. Stealing cables underground is not common but it happened. And rats and underground water is quite a problem for underground (copper) cables.
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Even if they can't do it right away, they should communicate a plan for how they are going to tackle this recurring issue. That's the whole point behind status.heroku.com / trust.salesforce.com. They are part of a publicly traded corporation with a lot of resources. Extremely nerve wracking for new startups like ours.
I guess, it is always a good plan to have an instance deployable on Linode.
Simple solution to this is to have a backup or failover to a non-AWS Datacenter too, basically don't be just dependent on one Datacenter. E.g. MS Azure/Google/Rackspace This not only spreads your risks but keeps your customers happy.
There's nothing simple about that. :)
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You're joking, but I bet Netflix's Asgard system gets support for OpenStack pretty quickly now...
Netflix has confirmed that they would like the option to migrate to from Amazon. https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222294/Netflix_open...
I think Netflix are expecting another cloud to offer the same model and API as Amazon though, which isn't likely to happen - everyone else is learning from AWS's mistakes!
Even if it did, many of the features they're waiting for (like auto-scaling groups) probably wouldn't be as useful in a multi-cloud environment, and would therefore have to be built into Asgard.