Mark Coccimiglio wrote: > Steve Totaro wrote: > > >> What if a train derails and slices through the main fiber connections. >> OK, so you have XO, Global Crossing, Verizon, and UCN all for >> redundancy. Well guess what? They are all most likely running over >> those strands of fiber. You better have a VSAT connection too! >> >> >> > That's why I lease a few servers in a data center on other side of the > country. Setup in a "hot stand-by" state. Its that peace-of-mind you > can't buy any way else. So it costs a few hundred dollars a month > (actually less then $500). It kicks in to take-up capacity when my > main servers gets "real busy" or go off-line for maintenance. Its > instant and automatic. Ok sure it took a lot of planning to get it > right, but that's what I get paid to do. > > Single point of failure should NEVER completely disable your company. > Yes outages happen and backhoe's cut fibre all the time. From within > this stuff can make one's life rather difficult, but from the outside it > should be almost unnoticed. When was the last time you noticed an outage > at Google, Microsoft or the DoD? Do you think they don't happen? > > Its not that difficult or all that expensive if planned and implemented > properly. > > Mark C. > > What are you talking about google was completely unavailable to most of the country for four hours about a month ago.
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