There are far too many 90% empty datacenters practically sitting on top of major exchanges down here in the SF Bay Area (and all over the US) for Valve to have suffered the outage they saw due to storm conditions. I'm sorry, but a decent distributed network architecture with properly configured load balancing hardware takes care of these single points of failure. But hey, what do I know... I only managed Yahoo's mailservers at GlobalCenter, FriendFinder and Lycos' hardware at Exodus, built and managed bulletproof network backbones at @Home and Netcom... So it's not like I'd know anything about engineering a method of preventing a little lack of power, IP dialtone, or overload from taking your biggest cash machine offline.
(sigh) Sorry Valve, I'm gainfully employed and I do not consult on the side. -Mike- ~~~~ -Mike- is: Biker ~ Slacker ~ Iconoclast ~ Eclectic Thinker ----- Original Message ---- From: Roman Hatsiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 11:21:39 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Post-outage thoughts This is true only as long as you work with tested and widely adopted solution like Active Directory. For closed proprietary system of Steam size designed without redundancy in mind this can be a kind of tricky exercise... Regards, Roman _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
