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How One Drunk Driver Sent My Company To the Cloud

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the agent-of-change dept.

snydeq writes "Andrew Oliver offers further proof that drunk driving and on-site servers don't mix. Oliver, who had earlier announced a New Year's resolution to go all-in on cloud services, had that business strategy expedited when a drunk driver, fleeing a hit-and-run, drove his SUV directly into the beauty shop next door to his company's main offices. 'Our servers were down for eight hours, and various services were intermittent for at least 12 hours. Had things been worse, we could have lost everything. Like our customers, we needed HA and DR. Moreover, we thought, maybe our critical services like email, our website, and Jira should be in a real data center. This made going all-cloud a top priority for us rather than "when we get to it."' Oliver writes, detailing his company's resultant hurry-up migration plan to 100 percent cloud services."

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  1. Re:For all the drunks out there! by Linux+User+33 · · Score: 1, Informative

    Who modded this offtopic? It's right on topic!

  2. Oh the irony! does nobody remember by buchner.johannes · · Score: 5, Informative

    Amazon Cloud Service Hit By Car Crash

    One of Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing data centres was knocked offline after it failed to cope with a power outage caused by a car crash

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    NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
  3. Re:why cloud? by Stormthirst · · Score: 5, Informative

    And worse if it's hosted in the States (which most of them are), the NSA has access to all your company data too.

  4. Re:why cloud? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is even worse than that.
    If you are hosted with ANY company that trades in the USofA then the NSA can have all your data. US Laws mean that to continue operating in the US, all companies must bend over and take a long one where it hurts when they are asked for YOUR data.
    So even if your 'cloud' is hosted here in Blighty if the company is Amerian or has a base in the US the NSA can still come a calling and there is nothing you can do about it.
     

  5. Re:why cloud? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Indeed, happened to Rackspace:

    http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/11/13/truck-crash-knocks-rackspace-offline/

    (Also lol, Web 2.0, blogosphere. Ah 2007...)