[154309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FYI Netflix is down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Jul 1 14:39:51 2012
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 14:38:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tyler Haske" <tyler.haske@gmail.com>
> How to run a datacenter 101. Have more then one location, preferably
> far apart. It being Amazon I would expect more. :/
Not entirely. Datacenters do go down, our best efforts to the contrary notwithstanding. Amazon doesn't guarantee you redundancy on EC2, only
the tools to provide it yourself. 25% Amazon; 75% service provider clients;
that's my appraisal of the blame.
Cheers,
-- jra
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