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"A server failing was normal, he said, but it was unheard of for a whole class of resources to suddenly vanish. " Whole centers go out all the time, for lots o
by illumen 17y ago
"A server failing was normal, he said, but it was unheard of for a whole class of resources to suddenly vanish. "
Whole centers go out all the time, for lots of different reasons. Using multiple data centers from different providers is the only solution.
- mbrubeck 17y agoAgreed. Also: Hardware failures are (close to) statistically independent across separate instances. Software bugs are not. And when you run on a virtualized platform with a complex infrastructure, everything acts like software.