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/
-- Nevin Lyne
-- CTO
-- EngineHosting.com
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
