Amazon S3 Goes Down
Netcraft has a great story about Amazon downtime. For what looks like roughly a day, their Alexa portal experienced extremely high latencies. Perhaps we should give them a new logo to represent their downsides:
I’ve always been against third-party web services solutions. What happens when they go down? It’s not a matter of if they go down, but rather when. No matter how many different locations you have, how many servers in your cluster, you will eventually experience a natural disaster, and lose connectivity. Until there’s some better way to maintain uptime, not prone to natural disaster, failure, or human error, you’re better off running your own systems.
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