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by crisopolis 3741 days ago
I've been reading all the comments on Twitter also... like "err mai gawd I'm switching to AWS because of this" and your failure to not have a secondary DNS provider, but I highly doubt you'd switch.

Then another... "Today's @digitalocean DNS #outage is a reminder to not trust your entire business to one provider. Spread the love around!"

If your company is e-commerce and makes money by being 99.99% available. It's your own fault for no fail-over.

another... ".@digitalocean that's two hours without DNS now...my company's websites could be losing thousands of £ in e-commerce! Please, an update!"

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Times like this makes you realize the difference betweeen good clients and bad clients. Yes, they have a right to be upset but claims like "could be losing thousands of dollars" is mostly exagerrated due to their frustration.
heh yeah, I just laugh at all the tweets saying their losing $billions of dollars every minute their site/app is unavailable. All I can think is... if you're the next Amazon.com I'm pretty sure you'd have some type of disaster plan in place should something like this happen.