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Most Silicon Valley darlings run disaster recovery exercises simulating setting up a datacenter from scratch in less than 24 hours (not that Parler should be co
by babelfish 6y ago
Most Silicon Valley darlings run disaster recovery exercises simulating setting up a datacenter from scratch in less than 24 hours (not that Parler should be compared to any of these companies, clearly)
- sroussey 6y agoThis. Absolutely this. We used a second location and provider.
- pocw 6y agoYeah but that usually means switching from AWS to GCP not, build a data center from scratch oh and by the way nobody from electricians to truckers will work with you because your platform was used to plan a violent attack on America.
- ghayes 6y agoRight, so step #1, don't plan a violent attack on America?
- bassman9000 6y agoBroad accusations aside, don't shift the goalposts. No one can setup basic infrastructure beyond the datacenter in 24h.
- pbourke 6y agoYeah, all those liberal electricians and truckers.
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- paxys 6y agoThey don't have to build a data center from scratch. Plenty of hosting providers (yes even "cloud" ones) in the country or outside it would take their business in an instant.
- 8note 6y agoThey could probably set up hosting in Russia or China though. Just at a slower latency
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoI think you're overestimating the ability of many "Silicon Valley darlings" to recover from what happened to Parler. First, at least these days, most Silicon Valley darlings are pretty heavily tied to whatever cloud service that hosts them, so disaster recovery exercises mean spinning up another project in a different AWS availability zone, not moving from AWS to GCP or whatever. Granted, given Parler's mantra they should have known they would be particularly vulnerable to getting kicked off AWS, but I'm highly skeptical that many Silicon Valley darlings (and I've worked at some) would have been able to spin up something quickly on a completely new hosting platform.
- hundreddaysoff 6y agoJust curious... in your experience, are most "Silicon Valley darlings" also more apolitical and pragmatic than this CEO's statement seemed to indicate he is? Or do they run the gamut? Just curious as this was my overall sense when I lived in the Bay Area and it would be consistent with a lot of the corporate "censorship" of various diverse viewpoints that's going on now.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y ago> are most "Silicon Valley darlings" also more apolitical and pragmatic than this CEO's statement seemed to indicate he is? Yes, but with an important caveat. Most all good business leaders are pragmatic, because if you're not there's a very good chance you won't be a good business leader. However, Parler's entire raison d'être was as a right wing alternative to Twitter et al (you can say "free speech" alternative all you want, but it's beyond ridiculous to claim Parler's community wasn't extremely hostile to liberals/progressives on the site, to the point that I rarely if ever saw any on there), so it would be expected for him to be quite political as it aligns with the business culture of his company. His problem was that he wanted to make his stand without an adequate technological plan if he had to build everything off the major (and even not-so-major) cloud providers.
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- aahortwwy 6y agoYes, this is what you're meant to do, but there are plenty of companies that don't (including some multi-billion dollar ones).