On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bad: This approach is just not suited to many types of application, > broadband internet is by no means universal even in first-world > countries, the internet goes down a lot. >
It certainly depends on the client's circumstances. Of course, the internet really doesn't go down a lot -- the client's last-mile connection does. And that's a choice the client makes. Cheap cable or DSL plans trade low price for reliability. Most ISDN or T-1 connections have ~99.95% uptime. People for whom downtime is really expensive can work out fallback plans. (One of my clients loses internet and power regularly on months with "R" in them. They pay for a backup satellite service for the internet side, and use fairly hefty UPSes for power backup. It's a cost of doing business and a cost/benefit question.) Generally, an internet hosted service is going to be more reliable in a hosting center than a machine in an office closet. Internet connectivity ought to be available through separate backbones, and power should be backed up by UPSes and diesel generators. Developers still and always have to be thinking about backup plans, and rollbacks, and redundancy and disaster recovery. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4szrefvvqbdnuzvqs8r+pydt1d5jm7byzyrymensr0...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
