[150536] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Reliable Cloud host ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Mon Feb 27 04:39:26 2012
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Tony Patti <tony@swalter.com>, 'david raistrick' <drais@icantclick.org>,
'Randy Carpenter' <rcarpen@network1.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:40:17 +0000
In-Reply-To: <026201ccf4f9$0e7e3d10$2b7ab730$@com>
Cc: 'Nanog' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Patti [mailto:tony@swalter.com]
> Sent: 27 February 2012 02:42
> To: 'david raistrick'; 'Randy Carpenter'
> Cc: 'Nanog'
> Subject: RE: Reliable Cloud host ?
>=20
> > -----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.
>=20
> Since it is the weekend, I can't resist writing down a little equation:
>=20
> Marketing(cloud) <> Technology(cloud)
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> For some values of "cloud" perhaps?
Well indeed that=20is a valid point. All cloud to me means is that there i=
s some abstracted instance of x and that it does not always relate to a pa=
rticular physical device, indeed, it may well be spread around a few physi=
cal devices.=20
I don't think there is any implied magic redundancy automatic failover mov=
e your instance to another bit of metal if something breaks in there unles=
s that's specifically stated.
caveat emptor
--
Leigh
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