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by omni 3400 days ago
> an incident like this a year from now would end our company

I'm genuinely curious, what kind of business are you in that a four hour outage would end the company? High frequency trading or something?

2 comments

You're in the right ball park- services for traders and brokers in the finance industry. A two hour outage during trading hours would be an extinction level event.
not op, but when i worked in the ticketing business if this happened during a big on sale we would get hosed.