On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Sreekandh B <gnuy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Incidentally, reddit.com, which hosts on amazon web services, crashed last >> week. You can read about it here. >> http://blog.reddit.com/2011/03/why-reddit-was-down-for-6-of-last-24.html > > Interesting read !
Very interesting read, indeed. > In my opinion if you are running production stuff in any datacenter you need > to design your systems for failure. True, but IMHO, Amazon hosting brings in issues that one might not have thought about from past experience. I am so glad that my buddy insisted that we use RAID for databases and for crucial data partitions, on Amazon. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers