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IRC is decentralized, so a few severs going down is no problem.
by thescriptkiddie 11y ago
IRC is decentralized, so a few severs going down is no problem.
- msbarnett 11y agonetsplit isn't exactly what I'd call "no problem".
- nso95 11y agoI suspect most internal IRC nets just consist of a single server
- thescriptkiddie 11y agoThat's not exactly a point for slack, since internal slack nets don't exist. I call this "downtime as a service": you get all of the satisfaction an interrupted work day without any of the annoyance of being able to fix it yourself.
- msbarnett 11y agoThe flip side of that is with Slack, you have all the same problems as when your internal IRC server going down, but without the additional productivity loss of internal resources having to drop what they're doing to fix the damn thing.
- thescriptkiddie 11y agoI wasn't being 100% sarcastic. It's sometimes actually nice to use saas downtime as an excuse to take the day off without being the guy who has to fix it.
- iamsohungry 11y agosudo service ircd-irc2 restart I'm pretty sure SSH-ing into the server and executing that command costs less in productivity than waiting for Slack to fix their issues.
- mechazawa 11y agoA netsplit is just as annoying
- iamsohungry 11y agoYeah, I don't see a need to have more than one server. Even at gigantic companies, you only need single servers per team. It takes very little to restart a server: sudo service ircd-irc2 restart
- iamsohungry 11y agoMeh, I'd rather have one server, honestly. It takes two seconds to restart an IRC server.