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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Tue Jul 7 16:11:53 2009
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: Marc Manthey <marc@let.de>
In-Reply-To: <177336C6-4A98-44DF-A970-93D48A46B29D@let.de>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:10:48 -0400
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 7, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Marc Manthey wrote:
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>>>>> However it doesn't scale
>>>>
>>>> Anyone who's seen the "fail whale" might argue the same about =20
>>>> Twitter.
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>> 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 =20=
>> a 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 =20=
> over
> these "event" peaks. Would a decentralised system like =
http://laconi.ca/=20
> not a better choice ?
>
In a real crisis, redundancy rules.
Regards
Marshall
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