On Jul 7, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Marc Manthey wrote:
However it doesn't scale
Anyone who's seen the "fail whale" might argue the same about Twitter.
Just to add something to this, twitter has been slow all afternoon and now I am getting the "fail whale"
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.
yep, got that too several time, but everytime i "reload" the page it works , there were plenty of outages before twitter got the 35 million cash injection , but your absolutly right , its centralisted , so there will be serverfarms over serverfarms to get over these "event" peaks. Would a decentralised system like http://laconi.ca/ not a better choice ?
In a real crisis, redundancy rules. Regards Marshall
just my 50 cents
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