Google Cloud Is Down

Post by HighPlainsDrftr » Mon, Jun 03, 2019, 5:18 AM UTC

oarsinsync wrote: post #245

PerfectElement wrote: post #173

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The small bare metal hosting company I use for some projects hardly goes down, and when there is an issue, I can actually get a human being on the phone in 2 minutes. Plus, a bare metal server with tons of RAM costs less than a small VM on the big cloud providers.

> a bare metal server with tons of RAM costs less than a small VM on the big cloud providers Who are you getting this steal of a deal from?

Post by HighPlainsDrftr » Mon, Jun 03, 2019, 5:24 AM UTC

dijit wrote: post #546

chupasaurus wrote: post #207

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Any solution would be based on third parties, the robust solution is either to run your own country with fuel sources for electricity and army to defend the datacenters or rely on multiple independent infrastructures. I think the latter is less complex.

This is a ridiculous statement. Surely you realise that there is a sliding scale. You can run your own hardware and pull in multiple power lines without establishing your own country. I’ve ran my own hardware, maybe people have genuinely forgotten what it’s like, and granted, it takes preparation and planning and it’s harder than clicking “go” in a dashboard. But it’s not the same as establishing a country and source…

Post by gingabriska » Mon, Jun 03, 2019, 5:31 AM UTC

boulos wrote: post #63

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but disclaimer, I'm on vacation and so not much use to you!). We're having what appears to be a serious networking outage. It's disrupting everything, including unfortunately the tooling we usually use to communicate across the company about outages. There are backup plans, of course, but I wanted to at least come here to say: you're not crazy, nothing is lost (to those concerns do…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 03, 2019, 5:42 AM UTC

manigandham wrote: post #526

obeattie wrote: post #497

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Many millions of dollars per year. I care about how my providers behave when they have issues, and I can't see why you think it's not at all relevant.

> "why you think it's not at all relevant" Nobody said this. > "I care about how my providers behave when they have issues" We all do. As the other commenters stated, the communication is poor because the clouds are still growing rapidly and there's not much reason to be better. We might also be underestimating just how much more better service would cost and whether it's worth the revenue loss (if any). Are you real…

Post by jansan » Mon, Jun 03, 2019, 6:01 AM UTC

fredthomsen wrote: post #383

_xerxes_ wrote: post #349

Nest is down too, not surprising given they are part of Google. What I don't understand is why I can't still control my devices over my local network. Why does the system even require access to Google servers?

That made me rage the other day when I had an internet outage. I am honestly fed up with Nest esp after this new Google Nest branding, and just disconnected my thermostats from the internet. I rarely changed it from my scheduled settings via the app anyway.