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> Although I never expect 100 percent uptime, planned outages aren't needed if the cloud platforms are designed correctly. It's quite possible to do live migrat
by res0nat0r 12y ago
> Although I never expect 100 percent uptime, planned outages aren't needed if the cloud platforms are designed correctly. It's quite possible to do live migrations without a server reset these days, yet the cloud providers seem to be missing the boat here.
It is slightly more complicated than that.
> There should be no cloud outages, ever. Got that?
Really? That's not how the real world works. This "article" is pretty crap.
- specialk 12y agoYeah I agree the hyperbolic sentences are over the top. The only way for anyone to reliably get 100% uptime is to use two or three cloud providers or their own dedicated boxes somewhere. Even AWS don't provide 100% uptime guarantees. Though I think the author's underlying point that good design should lead to fewer/smaller planned outages. However, his statements are over the top in the extreme.
- ctdonath 12y agoTwo days down, by a world-scale provider, is also over the top. Nobody expects 100% uptime. They also don't expect 100% down for days.
- res0nat0r 12y agoUnderstood. His main point is that no cloud provider should ever have any downtime which is idiotic and no reputable company would ever promise zero downtime.
- Rapzid 12y agoTrue story. Amazon is all about telling people to plan for failure and building around it in your architecture. Also, nearly nothing will give you 100% uptime. That's fault tolerance and almost nobody has it.
- awor 12y agoTwo DAYS