Comments on: Nothing, nothing is faster than c http://hostingfu.com/article/nothing-nothing-faster-c Web Hosting Blog by a Software Developer Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:38:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Duane http://hostingfu.com/article/nothing-nothing-faster-c/comment-page-1#comment-905 Duane Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:58:06 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=163#comment-905 <p>If you are truly worried about availability you need 2 of everything in 2 completely different geographical areas. You pointed out one potential issue of many, that being a cut submarine cable, although these days with more and more cables all the time this is a form of redundancy in and of itself.</p> <p>Other problems that can cause down time include backhoes near data centres, this has caused down time for me, a week or so ago there was major down time in a texas data centre when the battery banks blew up or what not. Then there is the more obvious problems with server hardware, issues with connectivity to/from the rack, someone connecting the active instead of grounding the rack so on and so forth.</p> <p>As I said, the only way to perfect uptime is 2 of everything in completely different geographical areas, and even then murphy can still bite :)</p> If you are truly worried about availability you need 2 of everything in 2 completely different geographical areas. You pointed out one potential issue of many, that being a cut submarine cable, although these days with more and more cables all the time this is a form of redundancy in and of itself.

Other problems that can cause down time include backhoes near data centres, this has caused down time for me, a week or so ago there was major down time in a texas data centre when the battery banks blew up or what not. Then there is the more obvious problems with server hardware, issues with connectivity to/from the rack, someone connecting the active instead of grounding the rack so on and so forth.

As I said, the only way to perfect uptime is 2 of everything in completely different geographical areas, and even then murphy can still bite :)

]]> By: Carlos http://hostingfu.com/article/nothing-nothing-faster-c/comment-page-1#comment-904 Carlos Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:49:17 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=163#comment-904 <p>Scott,</p> <p>Make sure you check out the new articles!</p> Scott,

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