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. In my world, the SLAs I have agreed to state, roughly, that uptime is not guaranteed, nor is data recoverability. They suggest that that sort of thing is -my- problem to engineer and architect around. I don't use Rackspace's cloud solution - but I haven't seen anything to suggest that they advertise their service any differently. The "cloud" provides flexibility and rapid deployment at the expense of hands-on control and reliability (and SLAs). Perhaps you forgot to read the SLA? Or you can show us where someone defines "Cloud" as "highly available" and "without indefinite downtime" ? -- david raistrick http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html drais@icantclick.org http://www.expita.com/nomime.html