While it's certainly unfortunate for companies that have bet on EC2, they'd be smarter to distribute their servers a bit so that a single data center outage does not take out their entire company.
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm not suggesting schadenfreude here, but for all those folks > doubting the viability of appengine for reliability reasons: > > > http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/04/21/amazon-ec2-goes-down-taking-with-it-reddit-foursquare-and-quora/ > > Amazon's North Virginia datacenter tripped and fell over in the early > AM this morning, and several major sites (Foursquare and Quora) are > still down more than *eight hours* later. Ouch. > > You can read the gory details here: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ > > Jeff > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- Writer. Programmer. Puzzle Designer. http://www.obsessionwithfood.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
