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Downtime happens, cloud or not. For the moment, it's just a fact of computing.
by abjorn 12y ago
Downtime happens, cloud or not. For the moment, it's just a fact of computing.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoActually millions were spent to make that not true. So this is definitely not supposed to happen.
- trvrprkr 12y agoIf all it took were millions of dollars and slightly harder thinking to make a completely failure-proof system, a lot of problems would suddenly and cheaply be solved. At the end of the day there's still hardware, software, network infrastructure, peering, random chance, and all of the imperfections in the humans designing these systems.
- kordless 12y ago> definitely not suppose to happen Over what time range are you referring? Based on the 'millions' comment, I'm assuming you mean 'all time'. It's illogical to expect systems to perform flawlessly over a long period of time. I'd also quantify the fact that it was only "unavailable" for a period. It's not like they lost my data.
- ealdent 12y agoIf government teaches us anything, it's that there's no correlation between money spent and reliability of the system. :/
- Piskvorrr 12y agoSee, that was half of the cloud's appeal and its major selling point (the other half being "accessible from anywhere"): "no more downtime, because OMG Cloud!!!" What you are doing is a rhetorical trick called "moving the goalposts," in other words, "the marketing buzz was a big, fat lie; so let's instead try to spin it as if that promise had never happened."
- abjorn 12y agoNo, I just think that you'd be a fool to have ever believed any promise that the cloud would eliminate downtime. Even if from a technical perspective that were true, there's still the possibility of human error.