Due to the fires and power outages in California, oreilly.com is unavailable
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Re: Due to the fires and power outages in California, oreilly.com is unavailable
#2No geographic redundancy?
"Well, this is awkward…"
Doesn't quite cover it I think, especially given that these problems are not a bolt out of the blue.
Re: Due to the fires and power outages in California, oreilly.com is unavailable
#3It's all fun and games until you get a GDP drop. For the areas affected, 3 day = 1% of yearly GDP drop. But don't forget the knock-on effects.
Re: Due to the fires and power outages in California, oreilly.com is unavailable
#4Surprising that they don't have a geo-failover location.
When I worked in the DR field many years ago all but the smallest companies had some sort of business continuity plan if disaster strikes, but perhaps this is an example of positive bias as only companies that already cared a lot about DR would get a DR consultancy.
Those few companies I saw that had no DR and BCP whatsoever were usually small companies that grew recently and their insurance provider told them to make such plans so they have lower insurance premiums.
Re: Due to the fires and power outages in California, oreilly.com is unavailable
#5No geographic redundancy? "Well, this is awkward…" Doesn't quite cover it I think, especially given that these problems are not a bolt out of the blue.
OTOH that's what makes it really awkward.
Re: Due to the fires and power outages in California, oreilly.com is unavailable
#6Thank god I store all my learning material (among other things) offline, so that my education doesn't have to depend on firefighters from the other side of the planet.
Re: Due to the fires and power outages in California, oreilly.com is unavailable
#7It doesn't seem unavailable. It's online, innit?
Re: Due to the fires and power outages in California, oreilly.com is unavailable
#8It doesn't seem unavailable. It's online, innit?
It seems to be a single static page served directly from a machine at their Sebastopol HQ, not from their datacenter in Petaluma
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#9Thank god I store all my learning material (among other things) offline, so that my education doesn't have to depend on firefighters from the other side of the planet.
A wise choice, but the economics are a bit different from cloud software, like Adobe: the costs for books and training videos can add up to several thousands of € per year and most of that knowledge will become obsolete in a couple of years.
Many tech books should probably be rented, while the classics and very good ones should indeed be bought.
Re: Due to the fires and power outages in California, oreilly.com is unavailable
#10Thank god I store all my learning material (among other things) offline, so that my education doesn't have to depend on firefighters from the other side of the planet.
A wise choice, but the economics are a bit different from cloud software, like Adobe: the costs for books and training videos can add up to several thousands of € per year and most of that knowledge will become obsolete in a couple of years. Many tech books should probably be rented, while the classics and very good ones should indeed be bought.
That's an argument for _allowing books to be rented_, but not an argument for _disallowing books from being bought or downloaded_.
Besides, your argument is already served by libraries. The problem in this case is the publisher wants to be _the library_.