[AusNOG] ispONE Disconnected by Wholesalers - Are you affected? `

[Matt Palmer]

On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 04:03:34PM +1000, Bevan Slattery wrote:
> Haha.  People who say these things today about Megaport remind me of the
> server hardware sales people talking about AWS in 2010.

Talk about statements that aren't relevant to the discussion.  But to bring
it back to my point, the list of AWS outages isn't short, and the harm those
have done to AWS customers is real, and there are plenty of "cloud"
businesses that have gone belly-up.

In each case, customers who didn't plan for the contingency of the failure
were left in a very, very bad position -- a situation not dissimilar to the
topic of conversation.

> We have almost 200 ports being lit by customers that value that an
> on-demand, customer controlled, elastic connectivity platform allowing
> partners to integrate each others platforms via an API.

How many ports were lit by customers of ispONE?

> This was merely an example of how Megaports elastic connectivity platform
> could assist - greatly.  If it's not for you then no probs.  But to jump
> in with a couple of blanket statements that weren't even relevant to the
> discussion demonstrates you probably just don't get it.

Sounds like you're a little touchy about the fact that businesses can fail,
and that it isn't wise to rely on a single provider of any service.  An
interesting data point.

I'm actually rather keen on the concept of Megaport, but I'm not going to
sit around quietly while people make statements which contradict sound
engineering practice.  Sorry if that upsets your grand vision of using
AusNOG as your criticism-free advertising platform.

- Matt