Easy to say, not so easy to do :-) All that frantic running-around-in-panic that GAE engineers and ops people do when something goes wonky inside the datastore? That would be you right now, trying to figure out how to failover your database (and any other persistent data) to a different datacenter... and then when the original comes back up you get to merge any lost transactions.
I've been there and I'm happy to leave this job to the professionals. Jeff On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Derrick Schneider <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
