On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 07:57 -0500, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
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?
multihomed or simply redundantly equipped to switch over faster ?