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> Luckily for DNSimple, they were smart enough to run their status page off of their own infrastructure That wording... is it me, or does that not mean what th
by click170 12y ago
> Luckily for DNSimple, they were smart enough to run their status page off of their own infrastructure
That wording... is it me, or does that not mean what they think it means?
I read that as "they were smart enough to run their status page on their own infrastructure" because of colloquial uses of the phrase "off of" (eg he jumped off of the dock).
- hayksaakian 12y agoIn my own writing, I can usually replace "off of" with "on" 100% of the time.
- byoung2 12y agoI see what you mean, but I took it to mean that they ran it "separate from" their own infrastructure, so as it to isolate it from problems affecting their main infrastructure and DNS.
- patmcc 12y agoOfftopic but I'm curious - how do you parse "he jumped off of the dock"? To me that would say he was on the dock and jumped off it (into water or whatever), so equivalent to "he jumped off the dock". I would parse it as "on" in a sentence like "he based his site off of facebook".
- daledavies 12y agoI've only ever heard it used as "on" or "from". So I read this as... "run their status page on/from their own infrastructure" too.