On Jul 6, 2009, at 11:08 AM, ne...@enginehosting.com wrote:

On Monday, July 6, 2009 10:00am, "Michael Holstein" <michael.holst...@csuohio.edu > said:

However it doesn't scale

Anyone who's seen the "fail whale" might argue the same about Twitter.

Cheers,

Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University

With a past week of highly visible outages in the data center/ provider industry, take a look at the section: "Crisis Communications Moves Fast" in this story, for another view of using communications channels like Twitter. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/07/06/the-day-after-a-brutal-week-for-uptime/

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Just to add something to this, twitter has been slow all afternoon and now I am getting the "fail whale"

Twitter is over capacity.
Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again

I presume that this has something to do with the Michael Jackson Memorial Service now underway.

I just thought I would point out in real time the obvious danger of using a backup service that itself could fail under load, especially if your outage and the load could be correlated, say in a disaster or public emergency situation.

Regards
Marshall





Regards
Marshall Eubanks
CEO / AmericaFree.TV




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