On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson<swm...@swm.pp.se> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > >> In a real crisis, redundancy rules. > > ... and simplicity. > > It's always "fun" when those outages pages rely on sql backends etc, so > they're capable of tens or hundreds of users, so they look fine normally. > When an outage happens and people really need the information and want it, > things stop working. > > I've been advocating a distributed system with static HTML pages being > generated and pushed out when things change. Huge load capability, you can > put it anycasted at multiple IXes so it's geographically and ISP resiliant, > larger ISPs can even request to get their own mirror. Keeping it simple. > > No takers yet though, people seem to have too much confidence in > complicated, centralized, nice looking solutions. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: swm...@swm.pp.se > >
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