Re:Downtime last Saturday
by dsl on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @08:03PM
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I'm specifically addressing the original parents straw man.
> There are maybe, what, a thousand people in the U.S. that have worked on network administration for something GitHub's size?
I didn't intend to deflate any nerd egos, just putting things in realistic terms. GitHub is cool. It's the biggest in its industry. It's definitely an interesting problem. But it's still hosted within Rackspace, which in itself isn't that big.
> There are maybe, what, a thousand people in the U.S. that have worked on network administration for something GitHub's size?
I didn't intend to deflate any nerd egos, just putting things in realistic terms. GitHub is cool. It's the biggest in its industry. It's definitely an interesting problem. But it's still hosted within Rackspace, which in itself isn't that big.