Comments on: Don’t Get Burned When the Cloud Goes Down http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/22/dont-get-burned-when-the-cloud-goes-down/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:18:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mingz http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/22/dont-get-burned-when-the-cloud-goes-down/comment-page-1/#comment-766033 mingz Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:37:54 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=2677#comment-766033 It's good to remind project managers the importance of risk management. If you don't manage risk, you are risking your business. It’s good to remind project managers the importance of risk management. If you don’t manage risk, you are risking your business.

]]> By: gdog http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/22/dont-get-burned-when-the-cloud-goes-down/comment-page-1/#comment-765010 gdog Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:43:57 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=2677#comment-765010 @Tjis: Totally correct. I am considering moving some corporate functionality in the near-future to EC/S3 because I expect it to me more reliable than hosting my own boxes. I would expect it to be built out such that downtimes are infinitely less likely than me slapping a few boxes into geographically-disperse data centers. But, why bother if I can do better? Apart from scaling-for-spikes, I have had 99.999% uptime in the last year. Apparently , I have better uptime and redundancy than Amazon for not that much more a month. @Tjis: Totally correct.

I am considering moving some corporate functionality in the near-future to EC/S3 because I expect it to me more reliable than hosting my own boxes. I would expect it to be built out such that downtimes are infinitely less likely than me slapping a few boxes into geographically-disperse data centers.

But, why bother if I can do better? Apart from scaling-for-spikes, I have had 99.999% uptime in the last year. Apparently , I have better uptime and redundancy than Amazon for not that much more a month.

]]> By: Tijs http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/22/dont-get-burned-when-the-cloud-goes-down/comment-page-1/#comment-764928 Tijs Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:05:29 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=2677#comment-764928 For many services it's the cost of storage that makes S3 attractive. keeping a backup of all S3 data on 'expensive' alternatives sort of defies the purpose. what we need is an S3 competitor. I would love to be able to keep backups in the google cloud and switch to either depending on availability. Since both EU and US S3 services were down i guess keeping your data on both isn't a solution in this case. For many services it’s the cost of storage that makes S3 attractive. keeping a backup of all S3 data on ‘expensive’ alternatives sort of defies the purpose. what we need is an S3 competitor. I would love to be able to keep backups in the google cloud and switch to either depending on availability. Since both EU and US S3 services were down i guess keeping your data on both isn’t a solution in this case.

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