Harper Reed: Tech, Phones, Yo-yoing and Death Metal
Putting the blame on your vendors for the win.
22 Jan
Posted by Harper in Technology at 05:08 PM
Tags: 37signals, downtime, infrastructure, network, rackspace, rails, tumblr, web20
In the past week there were a couple of companies(tumblr and 37signals) who publically blamed Rackspace for the downtime of their sites (tumblr here and 37signals here, here) . In both cases the downtime wasn’t widespread and was limited to the individual sites. In both cases someone from the respective site blogged about how it [...]
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