[AusNOG] After Sandy Knocks Out Power, ... (huffingtonpost.com)

[Peter Tiggerdine]

So replication to AWS or some other cheap cloud vendor isn't possible?

Seems to me the startup isn't really embracing the landscape.

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Damian Guppy <the.damo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> 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.
>
> --Damian
>
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Glen Greig <glen at greig.net.au> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> Rather than sitting back and going "oh well, this is beyond what we
>>> catered for, so we'll just let it run down", they did something. Good
>>> on 'em I say - if they can see a crazy option, and carry it out
>>> successfully then I think that rocks :)
>>>
>>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
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