Re:Without Warning, Twitter Kills StatTweets
by philh on Monday May 04, 2009 @11:39AM
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At the same time, that site might be creating business opportunities that wouldn't otherwise exist.
And almost any business will be dependant, to some extent, on others. It's a question of how many of your dependencies are irreplaceable, and how likely they are to shut you out.
See for example http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/outage-10-08.html - they went down and lost all their data because the hosting company had a fight with the people who owned the building where the servers were kept. (Including backups, which made the host irreplaceable - with offsite backups, that wouldn't have been the case.)
Building on a site like twitter might increase the risk of being cut off on a whim, but it probably decreases the risk of competitors.
And almost any business will be dependant, to some extent, on others. It's a question of how many of your dependencies are irreplaceable, and how likely they are to shut you out.
See for example http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/outage-10-08.html - they went down and lost all their data because the hosting company had a fight with the people who owned the building where the servers were kept. (Including backups, which made the host irreplaceable - with offsite backups, that wouldn't have been the case.)
Building on a site like twitter might increase the risk of being cut off on a whim, but it probably decreases the risk of competitors.