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I’m sure google can afford some colo space (probably would be cheaper too)
by dilyevsky 6y ago
I’m sure google can afford some colo space (probably would be cheaper too)
- macintux 6y agoSure, but what’s more likely to be reliable: GCP/AWS or a colo? It’s also embarrassing (and can cause stress for your customers) when your status page is down.
- closeparen 6y agoA separate failure domain / uncorrelated failure can be more important than the absolute rate of failure.
- dilyevsky 6y agoImo for simple deployment colo with a major provider (equinix, coresite, etc) and redundant transit beats any cloud on reliability hands down
- jeffbee 6y agoHow do you know that there isn't a disaster plan under which Google routes requests for status.cloud.google.com to some other, non-Google host?
- dilyevsky 6y agoI honestly have no idea, hope they do. My point is aws is not the only alternative (and not even the best one) for setting this up.
- dylan604 6y agoMakes me think of a calculus word problem: As the things Google cannot afford approaches 0...