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Re:How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud by static_noise on Sunday November 13, 2016 @07:05AM (#12942949)
So, you have redundancy and failover at the application level. You don't need reliable servers then.
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Re:How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud by empthought on Sunday November 13, 2016 @07:51AM (#12943090)
Reliability is with respect to some SLA; it could very well be that one would _like_ to timeout more quickly than can be reasonably expected of cloud infrastructure, but well within the capabilities of hardware itself.
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