-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 15/06/10 16:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > For example, if a single edge server in (say) Australia goes down, > Amazon might not count it as an outage for the purpose of calculating > their 99.99% reliability since the system as a whole is still up, but > conceivably Australian users might see an outage (or at least a > slow-down). With N servers, I'd expect N times the number of individual > outages, with Amazon presumably only counting it as "system down" if > all N servers go down at the same time.
I don't know, but if I were Amazon, I would (automatically) update the DNS to serve Australia users from any other edge server :). - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ j...@jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:j...@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ . _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQCVAwUBTBe+D5lgi5GaxT1NAQJtfAP6Azk2UGRQS7tPpxX9AcHQA9ALRXubcoHQ cleDsSxDe0ghoeSVtGMFJYN3KTlMknc9sPmxwBy2dR8tTlxQh0ytHQsQEqokZMsC jAbtYcaPgVG4gPo19xHg81elTkRAVhflW7NbV8AmlEIPXsV1LP92DH5wHPMaWyws 4nynJKYCBlY= =g4k1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
