[150532] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Reliable Cloud host ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Patti)
Sun Feb 26 21:39:55 2012
From: "Tony Patti" <tony@swalter.com>
To: "'david raistrick'" <drais@icantclick.org>,
"'Randy Carpenter'" <rcarpen@network1.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202261918580.42771@murf.icantclick.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:39:41 -0500
Cc: 'Nanog' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: david raistrick [mailto:drais@icantclick.org]
> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 7:19 PM
> To: Randy Carpenter
> Cc: Nanog
> Subject: Re: Reliable Cloud host ?
>
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Randy Carpenter wrote:
>
> > I don't need that kind of HA, and understand that it is not going to
> > be available. 15 minutes of downtime is fine. 6 hours is completely
> > unacceptable, and it false advertising to say you have a "Cloud"
> > service, and then have the realization that you could have
> > *indefinite* downtime.
>
> Um. You and I apparently work in different clouds.
Since it is the weekend, I can't resist writing down a little equation:
Marketing(cloud) <> Technology(cloud)
For some values of "cloud" perhaps?
p.s. tongue firmly in cheek
- Tony
