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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Tue Jul 7 15:50:32 2009
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: nevin@enginehosting.com
In-Reply-To: <1246892930.78626960@192.168.1.71>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:50:01 -0400
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 6, 2009, at 11:08 AM, nevin@enginehosting.com wrote:
> On Monday, July 6, 2009 10:00am, "Michael Holstein" <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu
> > said:
>>
>>> However it doesn't scale
>>
>> Anyone who's seen the "fail whale" might argue the same about
>> Twitter.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michael Holstein
>> Cleveland State University
>
> With a past week of highly visible outages in the data center/
> provider industry, take a look at the section: "Crisis
> Communications Moves Fast" in this story, for another view of using
> communications channels like Twitter. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/07/06/the-day-after-a-brutal-week-for-uptime/
>
> -- Nevin Lyne
> -- CTO
> -- EngineHosting.com
>
>
Just to add something to this, twitter has been slow all afternoon and
now I am getting the "fail whale"
Twitter is over capacity.
Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again
I presume that this has something to do with the Michael Jackson
Memorial Service now underway.
I just thought I would point out in real time the obvious danger of
using a backup service that itself could fail under load,
especially if your outage and the load could be correlated, say in a
disaster or public emergency situation.
Regards
Marshall
>
>
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
CEO / AmericaFree.TV
