On Jul 6, 2009, at 11:08 AM, nevin@enginehosting.com wrote:
On Monday, July 6, 2009 10:00am, "Michael Holstein" <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu
said:
However it doesn't scale
Anyone who's seen the "fail whale" might argue the same about Twitter.
Cheers,
Michael Holstein Cleveland State University
With a past week of highly visible outages in the data center/ provider industry, take a look at the section: "Crisis Communications Moves Fast" in this story, for another view of using communications channels like Twitter. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/07/06/the-day-after-a-bruta...
-- Nevin Lyne -- CTO -- EngineHosting.com
Just to add something to this, twitter has been slow all afternoon and now I am getting the "fail whale" Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again I presume that this has something to do with the Michael Jackson Memorial Service now underway. I just thought I would point out in real time the obvious danger of using a backup service that itself could fail under load, especially if your outage and the load could be correlated, say in a disaster or public emergency situation. Regards Marshall
Regards Marshall Eubanks CEO / AmericaFree.TV