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by rondon2 4172 days ago
It is just so expensive to provide 99% uptime on your own servers. Who is going to go into the office at 2:00AM when an executive can't access his power point presentation?
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That comparison doesn't make sense. Google's SREs doesn't get out of bed just because you can't access your powerpoint either.
That is because Google has technicians 24/7/365 at their data centers.