6 Feb
2013
6 Feb
'13
7:57 a.m.
Would you rather your ISP not maintain their devices? Are the consequences "so bad" of a 30 minute outage that your business is severely impacted?
- Jared
You had me up until that line. That should be expanded a little ... First, I'd say, yes - many businesses would be severely impacted and may even have consequential issues if they had to sustain a 30 minute outage. Suppose for a moment they couldn't process money machines transactions for 30 minutes; or Netflix couldn't serve content for 30 minutes; or youporn was offline for 30 minutes. The question should be more along the lines of, "why aren't you multihomed in a way that would make a 30 minute outage (which is inevitable) irrelevant to you?