Cloudatcost currently offline
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Only two more weeks before I'm on my own network in Andalusia.
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Did anyone else notice this guy on twitter running a hosting biz off of C@C? https://twitter.com/tensioncore/with_replies seems like a bad move.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Did anyone else notice this guy on twitter running a hosting biz off of C@C? https://twitter.com/tensioncore/with_replies seems like a bad move.
Using CloudatCost isn't the issue. Any provider can go down and lose a datacenter. Even Rackspace and Amazon have had that happen. To be an enterprise class hoster you need redundancy. Using C@C for one leg of your redundancy is perfectly fine. But they need someone else, like Rackspace, AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean or whatever for the other leg. They are basically running on a single box, no backup and just "hoping" that nothing goes wrong. They didn't bother to implement failover, HA or any DR strategy, it would appear. That's the actual problem.
The difference is that larger providers like Amazon offer lots of disconnected datacenters and can provide full redundancy from a single company. But if you choose not to have that redundancy there, you'd be in exactly the same boat - and many people have been.
This is purely a bad host sticking their heads in the sand and just hoping that nothing goes wrong rather than designing and implementing a reliable solution.
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Here is the traceroute FROM Toronto from a system sitting right on a shared Rogers / Bell Canada backbone....
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Hey Everybody!
Late night update for you all. It's almost 9pm and we are all scrambling to make sure everything gets resolved ASAP.Rogers is telling us that we should be up and running by midnight EST tonight.
As you can all understand, this was a pretty heavy hit for us today and any time something like this happens, its always unfortunate. No company is too big or too small to avoid these failures, and seeing Rogers experience massive network issues is a prime example of that.
For me personally, this could not have come at a worse time. I really enjoy interacting with each and every one of you, reading your posts about cloudatcost, seeing comments about how you are planning on using your servers, then all of a sudden... BOOM!
Regardless, I am still here to answer any questions you may have and I will make sure that once the dust has settled on this, we do something awesome for ML users.
Comparing Cloudatcost to many of the names you knew before you heard of us, we are small... but we are determined, and we WILL learn from this, and we WILL find a way to make it so that next time this happens, we are able to get everybody back up sooner and quicker than today.
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Hey Everybody,
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@AmanBhogal said:
Hey Everybody,
I am happy to announce that the issue appears to be resolved.Woohoo! Glad to hear it!
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Looks like all is well.
