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This means that Techcrunch is down, and @arrington is gearing up for a nervous breakdown after his 4th or 5th provider switch in 2 years. Eventually I would th
by dnsworks 17y ago
This means that Techcrunch is down, and @arrington is gearing up for a nervous breakdown after his 4th or 5th provider switch in 2 years.
Eventually I would think that they would belly up to the bar and implement a redundancy solution that involves multiple solutions. Then again, I am an infrastructure architect, not a blogger, what do I know?
- farrel 17y agoThat... or maybe he'll just move it over to tumblr.
- mrkurt 17y agoMultiple solutions at which level? WP is hosted in redundant datacenters, I assume they have redundancy most of the way down the stack as well. What do you expect Techcrunch to be able to do that the Wordpress people can't?
- dnsworks 17y agoTechcrunch's problem is a far smaller and simpler one than Wordpress's. Four or five ISP switches now, and it's clear with each move that they are grasping at straws, hoping to just throw money at the problem and it will go away. Websites don't work that way. Wordpress.com has a problem that is many magnitudes more difficult and complex than just keeping one blog available. Techcrunch could do a far better job by keeping their TTLs low, choosing a secondary datacenter site for replication. In the frequent event of an outage they just perform a master promotion, change the dns records in order to get back online quickly. You don't have a redundant site if all of your eggs are at layeredtech. Throw SoftLayer or Equinix into the mix.
- electromagnetic 17y agoI believe the appropriate response after multiple provider switches would be "fuck this shit, it ain't worth all the worry" and just deal with occasional downtime.