So replication to AWS or some other cheap cloud vendor isn't possible?<br><br>Seems to me the startup isn't really embracing the landscape.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Damian Guppy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:the.damo@gmail.com" target="_blank">the.damo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">You need to remember we are not talking about some big multinational company here. We are talking about a bunch of cash poor startups who would rather spend their limited funds improving their product than blowing it on duplicating infrastructure chasing another 9<div>
<br></div><div>When your datacenter tells you they have all these wonderful backup measures in place like N+1 cooling and power, diverse connectivity paths, backup generators, onsite fuel storage for x days and refueling agreements etc, doubling(or increasing) your infrastructure spend for the remote chance that all that fails seems kind of wasteful.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<div><br></div></font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--Damian<br><br></font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Glen Greig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glen@greig.net.au" target="_blank">glen@greig.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Rather than sitting back and going "oh well, this is beyond what we</div>
catered for, so we'll just let it run down", they did something. Good<br>
on 'em I say - if they can see a crazy option, and carry it out<br>
successfully then I think that rocks :)<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>What's more successful the guy who runs into a burning building and save's his children from burning alive, or the guy who installs smoke detectors which go off and everybody gets out before there is real danger to begin with. One may make a better news story and be more heroic, but I know which one I would call more successful.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Don't get me wrong, the guys on the scene did a wonderful job, but there was immense amounts of luck involved here, and stressful and lucky are two different things.</div></div>
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