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by colinbartlett
3741 days ago
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I can't disagree with what you're saying, but I think we are all guilty of this. We expect more out of big name services than might be reasonable. (100% uptime) How many of us here have failover email services in case Gmail goes down? I think many companies would say they'd lose thousands in productivity if Google Apps suffers an outage yet I'd hazard that very few have failover plans. |
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Yeah, if your building full of employees can't work because the internet is down, and the secondary is also down, then that's kind of crappy, and you may be paying people to twiddle their thumbs... much short of that, it's kind of the cost of doing business...
There are redundancy options for a lot of things... If you're using only a single host provider for your infrastructure, and management scoffs at creating redundant, and under-utilized systems... it's not as "mission critical" as people think/say.