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Re:I build High Availability Platforms so Cloud is not for me by gouranga on Monday July 02, 2012 @09:43AM (#4188808)
For me, I'd rather go dedicated or colo at least, simply because I know what the process is when TSHTF and can communicate it reliably to my clients.

With black-box cloud services such as AWS, Azure, you just don't know what is happening.

Peace of mind is also important!

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Re:I build High Availability Platforms so Cloud is not for me by ceejayoz on Monday July 02, 2012 @09:52AM (#4188845)
On the other hand, though, if half the internet is offline with an AWS problem, chances are pretty decent a lot of folks will just go "oh, the Internet is having troubles again".
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Re:I build High Availability Platforms so Cloud is not for me by omh on Monday July 02, 2012 @09:58AM (#4188867)
The point about high-availability platforms is that your customer won't go "Oh, the Internet is having troubles again". They'll probably call you, or perhaps start losing money at an eye-watering rate.
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