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

[Bevan Slattery]

Sorry if I hit a nerve there Matt. Can you clarify where anyone on this thread suggested you should use Megaport or AWS for that matter exclusively?

Is it your position that using AWS, Megaport, Azure, Google Compute is engineering "bad practice"?

I'll skip on responding to the attacks which most will recognise as not constructive.

[b]

PS: some of those 200 customers are the largest internet companies in the world.  Just saying...

> On 3 May 2014, at 4:35 pm, Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
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