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This is where good sysadmins, and teams thereof, earn their high salaries. You shouldn't have to suffer through a two-day outage, but it happens. A good sysad

by lwhalen 12y ago

This is where good sysadmins, and teams thereof, earn their high salaries. You shouldn't have to suffer through a two-day outage, but it happens. A good sysadmin will insist on multi-provider hosting, be able to advise you on how not to get locked into $vendor's precious snowflake cloud implementation, and myriad other things.

falcolas 12y ago
Yup. Hurricane Sandy should have been enough to remind folks of this. Natural (and unnatural) disasters happen, and you have to be prepared for this contingency. There are many tools out there which can help with this, but a competent sysadmin will help a hundredfold ensure that your business continues when the unthinkable happens. Heck, only today one of Amazon's new datacenters on the east coast had a 3 alarm fire[1]. Didn't end up having any instances fail, but we did notice some of our services have problems that coincided with the fire, and we were ready to fail over the moment instances started dropping. [1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/09/technology/amazon-data-center-fire/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/09/technology/amazon-data-cente...