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Orrex

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2. Gee. Who could have predicted that outsourcing one's datastreaming could have this problem?

Reply to UnrepentantLiberal (Original post)

Thu Dec 27, 2012, 10:20 AM

Dec 2012

Answer: anybody who bothered to give it even a moment's thought.

The 6+ hour NetFlix outage was inexcusable but ultimately nothing more than an inconvenience. What happens when (not if) some vital cloudsourced data service goes unexpectedly offline for a similar span?

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Dark “Clouds” Forming After Netflix Outage Blamed On Amazon [View all] UnrepentantLiberal Dec 2012 OP

No different than what happens to any server when overloaded. hobbit709 Dec 2012 #1

Except a business has no control over how the problem is fixed. randome Dec 2012 #8

Gee. Who could have predicted that outsourcing one's datastreaming could have this problem? Orrex Dec 2012 #2

It's a win-win-win JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2012 #3

This was the first NetFlix outage of more than a few minutes that I've seen Orrex Dec 2012 #5

We just wondered why it went out. UnrepentantLiberal Dec 2012 #10

One reason I have redundancy on my hard drives. GoneOffShore Dec 2012 #4

It was inconvenient for Netflix to be out.. ananda Dec 2012 #6

Was there more outrage when CBS spelled "center" as "centre or "Christmas" as "Christams"? FSogol Dec 2012 #7

That was an outrage for sure UnrepentantLiberal Dec 2012 #12

Weird part is prime was up and running whistler162 Dec 2012 #9

Well it's their cloud. UnrepentantLiberal Dec 2012 #11

I'd guess it was a different cloud JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2012 #13