Comments on: Amazon crashed last night https://habitablezone.com/2012/06/15/amazon-crashed-last-night/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: FrankC https://habitablezone.com/2012/06/15/amazon-crashed-last-night/#comment-15813 FrankC Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:01:53 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=16828#comment-15813 In one of my fantasy worlds all failed predictions create a purple freckle. In that same world farts are rainbow colored gas. Oh yeah, I forgot the best one. People get fat when they eat commensurate with how much they eat but return to normal size when the food is digested In one of my fantasy worlds all failed predictions create a purple freckle. In that same world farts are rainbow colored gas.

Oh yeah, I forgot the best one. People get fat when they eat commensurate with how much they eat but return to normal size when the food is digested

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2012/06/15/amazon-crashed-last-night/#comment-15812 Jody Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:20:33 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=16828#comment-15812 Heh...we ain't seen nothin' yet. Heh…we ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

]]> By: Robert https://habitablezone.com/2012/06/15/amazon-crashed-last-night/#comment-15811 Robert Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:09:47 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=16828#comment-15811 You're right that the cloud doesn't seem to be living up to its hype regarding reliability. Though I know from experience you have to blame the marketeers and not the engineers for hype. Engineers live by the truth, marketeers by the lie. (Imagine the hell I went through when I worked as an "application engineer", aka "Judas goat", an engineer in a marketing department who is supposed to lull other engineers into a false sense of security.) Amazon doesn't claim that if you set up a site in their cloud, it'll never go down. They claim that their installation is resistant to failure, and pledge to restore it quickly if it fails (they did), and that when it comes back, no data will have been lost. Unfortunately, it looks like they failed that one: There's damage to the server's hard drive, and I'm going to have to bring down the Zone for an hour or two to run disk diagnostics. I never assumed that Amazon would perfectly protect my data. I have an intricate system of backups that keeps all my data in at least three different geographical locations, and my site backs up client data and the client's site backs up my data. One location is here with me, the other two are two different clouds. <i>That's</i> how you assure your safety in this cloudy new world. You’re right that the cloud doesn’t seem to be living up to its hype regarding reliability. Though I know from experience you have to blame the marketeers and not the engineers for hype. Engineers live by the truth, marketeers by the lie. (Imagine the hell I went through when I worked as an “application engineer”, aka “Judas goat”, an engineer in a marketing department who is supposed to lull other engineers into a false sense of security.)

Amazon doesn’t claim that if you set up a site in their cloud, it’ll never go down. They claim that their installation is resistant to failure, and pledge to restore it quickly if it fails (they did), and that when it comes back, no data will have been lost. Unfortunately, it looks like they failed that one: There’s damage to the server’s hard drive, and I’m going to have to bring down the Zone for an hour or two to run disk diagnostics.

I never assumed that Amazon would perfectly protect my data. I have an intricate system of backups that keeps all my data in at least three different geographical locations, and my site backs up client data and the client’s site backs up my data. One location is here with me, the other two are two different clouds. That’s how you assure your safety in this cloudy new world.

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/06/15/amazon-crashed-last-night/#comment-15808 bowser Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:49:19 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=16828#comment-15808 It seems that everything that the web says can't happen has. Everything gets hacked, or corrupted somehow. That's to be expected. What irritates me is the assurances we are given before the fact. The reality is that all equipment fails, it fails in stages, and there's always someone out there a bit more clever than the last guy. It seems that everything that the web says can’t happen has. Everything gets hacked, or corrupted somehow.

That’s to be expected. What irritates me is the assurances we are given before the fact. The reality is that all equipment fails, it fails in stages, and there’s always someone out there a bit more clever than the last guy.

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