-----Original Message----- From: Tony Patti [mailto:tony@swalter.com] Sent: 27 February 2012 02:42 To: 'david raistrick'; 'Randy Carpenter' Cc: 'Nanog' Subject: RE: Reliable Cloud host ?
-----Original Message----- From: david raistrick [mailto:drais@icantclick.org] Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 7:19 PM To: Randy Carpenter Cc: Nanog Subject: Re: Reliable Cloud host ?
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Randy Carpenter wrote:
I don't need that kind of HA, and understand that it is not going to be available. 15 minutes of downtime is fine. 6 hours is completely unacceptable, and it false advertising to say you have a "Cloud" service, and then have the realization that you could have *indefinite* downtime.
Um. You and I apparently work in different clouds.
Since it is the weekend, I can't resist writing down a little equation:
Marketing(cloud) <> Technology(cloud)
For some values of "cloud" perhaps?
Well indeed that is a valid point. All cloud to me means is that there is some abstracted instance of x and that it does not always relate to a particular physical device, indeed, it may well be spread around a few physical devices. I don't think there is any implied magic redundancy automatic failover move your instance to another bit of metal if something breaks in there unless that's specifically stated. caveat emptor -- Leigh ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________