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Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues?
From: George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:27:05 -0700
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Ryan Malayter <malayter () gmail com> wrote:
On Mar 22, 7:47 pm, Jeff Kell <jeff-k... () utc edu> wrote:Now getting "We re sorry, the Netflix website and the ability to instantly watch movies are both temporarily unavailable." out of Charter. Campus getting same routed via 1239 209 2906. JeffGuess that move to Amazon EC2 wasn't such a good idea. First reddit, now netflix. http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/four-reasons-we-choose-amazons-cloud-as.html I suppose there's a reason you can't get an SLA with any teeth from Amazon...
You're assuming that the outage was somehow related to the quality of hosting (virtual server, instance management, etc). In my experience with large website failures, some of mine and talking to others at conferences and elsewhere, I can't recall one where the servers HW performance / virtualization management were the root cause (and only one that was intrinsically hardware-based, which was a catastrophic storage failure and not server failure). Configuration management, inadequate testing of new software, systems management error, DBMS throughput capacity, emergent software / architecture failures are the usual culprits. -- -george william herbert george.herbert () gmail com
Current thread:
- OT: Question/Netflix issues? Joe Blanchard (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Raul Rodriguez (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Paul M. Impellizzeri (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Joe Blanchard (Mar 22)
- RE: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Scott, Robert D. (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Mark Gauvin (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Paul M. Impellizzeri (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Calin Nemes (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Jeff Kell (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Ryan Malayter (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? George Herbert (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Joe Blanchard (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? sillywizard (Mar 23)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Paul Graydon (Mar 23)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Jeff Kell (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Raul Rodriguez (Mar 22)
- Re: Question/Netflix issues? Hammer (Mar 23)
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- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Roger Marquis (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues? Hammer (Mar 23)