{"id":28438,"date":"2012-06-30T12:15:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T18:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/downtime-happens.html"},"modified":"2012-06-30T12:15:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T18:15:55","slug":"downtime-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/downtime-happens.html","title":{"rendered":"Downtime happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#39;m sure users of the Amazon Cloud and the services that use them aren&#39;t particularly happy about this, severe weather happens (and more frequently with climate change), so downtime is a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#39;s true whether you use the Amazon Cloud or host your own servers. \u00a0Indeed, it&#39;s probably <i>less<\/i> likely with a cloud service.<\/p>\n<p>There are reasons to self-host, but this kind of thing isn&#39;t one of them.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fanthonykosner%2Ffiles%2F2012%2F06%2Fnetflix-outage.jpeg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/anthonykosner\/2012\/06\/30\/amazon-cloud-goes-down-friday-night-taking-netflix-instagram-and-pinterest-with-it\/'>Amazon Cloud Goes Down Friday Night, Taking Netflix, Instagram And Pinterest With It &#8211; Forbes<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t As of 11:21 PM EST\u00a0Amazon\u2019s\u00a0Elastic Compute Cloud\u00a0in North Virginia went down, due to severe thunder storms in the area. The Washington Post reports torrential rains, \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/QtoFJ9okMg1' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#39;m sure users of the Amazon Cloud and the services that use them aren&#39;t particularly happy about this, severe weather happens (and more frequently with climate change), so downtime is a possibility. And that&#39;s true whether you use the Amazon Cloud or host your own servers. \u00a0Indeed, it&#39;s probably less likely with a cloud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/downtime-happens.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Downtime happens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133720,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/walmart-leans-on-vendors-to-not-use-amazon-web-services.html","url_meta":{"origin":28438,"position":0},"title":"Walmart leans on vendors to not use Amazon Web Services","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Jun-17 12:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There's nothing particularly illegal about this, but it's a typical level of Walmart lack of ethics -- both telling (or let it be rumored) that vendors that make use of AWS to host their data and applications will not be welcome selling to Walmart, and to imply in a public\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128133,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/another-entrant-joins-the-cloud-storage-arena.html","url_meta":{"origin":28438,"position":1},"title":"Another entrant joins the cloud storage arena","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Sep-15 1:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's Backblaze. 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