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Originally Posted by rmwebs
I can understand it on a site like this, but for VM's site to get 503 errors isnt acceptable. They could easily host the site in a cloud failover distribution, the costs would be negligible for VM to do so.
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Wrong completely. Have you *ANY* idea how much bandwidth actually costs for ISPs? (clue - it's not cheap. Try £10 per MegaBIT-per-second as a rough minimum, with 100 MegaBIT being the minimum size for bandwidth charges, not to mention transit costs (LINX/LoNAP for UK traffic and Cogent et al [expensive] for the worldwide traffic)).
Your domestic 50Mb connection you pay for is a contended service. If you have a 50Mb leased line you pay the high premium to have that service switched on, all the time, and bandwidth reserved exclusively for you.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Lol.
I'm glad I missed all the fun, was at work till it was all fixed.
So anyone know what the fuss was about? Someone mentioned routing hardware failure (which is pretty embarrasing, as a major ISP should have backup routes on just about everything) and someone else mentioned an aircon failure in Poplar?
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Backup routes yes, hardware failure is rare, and when it does happen it requires an engineer to go to the rack(s) in question and manually switch the hardware. That takes time because you have to do it slowly, carefully and properly. Not ham-fistedly so some script-kiddie in his mum's basement can continue his Warcraft campaign.