[115725] in North American Network Operators' Group
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Manthey)
Tue Jul 7 16:04:30 2009
From: Marc Manthey <marc@let.de>
To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6C2F8996-BB8E-4399-815F-9B7DA0207A3D@americafree.tv>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 22:03:31 +0200
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>>> However it doesn't scale
>>>
>>> Anyone who's seen the "fail whale" might argue the same about =20
>>> Twitter.
>
> Just to add something to this, twitter has been slow all afternoon =20
> and now I am getting the "fail whale"
>
>
> I just thought I would point out in real time the obvious danger of =20=
> using a backup service that itself could fail under load,
> especially if your outage and the load could be correlated, say in a =20=
> disaster or public emergency situation.
yep, got that too several time, but everytime i "reload" the page it =20
works , there were plenty of outages before twitter
got the 35 million cash injection , but your absolutly right , its =20
centralisted , so there will be serverfarms over serverfarms to get over
these "event" peaks. Would a decentralised system like =
http://laconi.ca/=20
not a better choice ?
just my 50 cents
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