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Considering the massive authorize.net outage that occured because of a fire in 1 datacenter not long ago… well, I no longer have faith that large companies have
by lanaer 17y ago
Considering the massive authorize.net outage that occured because of a fire in 1 datacenter not long ago… well, I no longer have faith that large companies have geographic redundancy ;)
Edit: or, if they have it, I don’t trust that it is implemented in a way that allows an immediate & transparent (or near-transparent) failover.
- mbrubeck 17y agoAmazon does regular "game day" drills that involve things like unplugging an entire datacenter to simulate an electrical failure. It's the only way to really figure out how things will break.
- mrdodge 17y agoI never have had Chase Paymentech or Bank of America's system go down; but PayPal has gone down many times. Of course since I'm a pro, I have a queue setup for processing transactions and a backup processor, so the users experienced no problems.