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The us-west outage did not affect connectivity to the west coast. Our west coast customers had no problems with that connectivity, but our east coast and overse
by callmeal 5y ago
The us-west outage did not affect connectivity to the west coast. Our west coast customers had no problems with that connectivity, but our east coast and overseas customers had problems for a couple of hours.
- Hamuko 5y agoI didn't actually have issues connecting to our us-west servers from Europe.
- topspin 5y ago90% of my users are either in Florida or Alaska.
- dylan604 5y agoYou can't get any more west coast than Alaska
- mbg721 5y agoYou also can't get any more east-coast than Alaska.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoCounterpoint: Maine.
- wahern 5y agoI thought they were referring to the fact that the westernmost part of Alaska is in the Eastern Hemisphere.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoThere's no such thing as the Eastern Hemisphere, just like there is no East Pole. To the extent the phrase has meaning, the claim is still untrue; the International Date Line goes out of its way to avoid crossing Alaska.
- wahern 5y ago> There's no such thing as the Eastern Hemisphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Hemisphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Hemisphere Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semisopochnoi_Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semisopochnoi_Island ("At 179°46' East (+179.7667) (in the Eastern Hemisphere), the easternmost tip of Semisopochnoi is, by longitude, the easternmost land location in the United States and North America.") FWIW, Semisopochnoi Island is a TIL moment for me, too =)
- simonh 5y agoThe latitude and longitude of a point don’t depend on that point’s time zone. Ask a geographer or cartographer about hemispheres.
- dylan604 5y agoThank goodness, otherwise we'd have to consider if everything on the map would suddenly shift 15 degrees with Daylight Savings.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> The latitude and longitude of a point don’t depend on that point’s time zone. They also don't have anything to do with how far east or west a point is. You have two options: 1. East is the direction in which the Earth rotates, and West is the opposite direction. By this definition, no point on the earth has an east-coordinate or a west-coordinate. 2. East is the direction in which time gets later, and West is the direction in which time gets earlier. This is the only definition which will allow you to claim that one point is "more east" than another point. And it tells you that the difference between East and West is the International Date Line. Latitude is absolute. Longitude is relative.
- passer_byer 5y agoAlaska is the western, northern, and eastern state in the U.S. The Aleutian Islands cross the International Dateline. Hawaii is the southern most state.
- dylan604 5y agoUm, no. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/International_Date_Line.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Internat...