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Amazon Web Services Goes Down, Takes Many Startup Sites With It
- pchristensen 19y agoSigh, here comes the short-term memory inspired backlash. This is only news because a bunch of sites went down at once. Compare this to outage rates for self-hosted sites and I'd still bet the AWS users are ahead. In the last couple weeks, 37signals and Fog Creek have both announced outages. This AWS crash today doesn't change the economics of their offering: service levels good enough for Amazon, and you don't have to spend your time futzing with servers. Websites have outages, that's life. 9's of uptime get more expensive quickly, and you've got to weigh that expense against how much your site makes per minute. Get over it. http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/800-what-happened-this-morning http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/800-what-happened-this-mo... http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/01/22.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/01/22.html