From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 22 20:36:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71FD315664 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:36:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA18835; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:35:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:35:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Will Ebay ever learn? In-Reply-To: <199907230150.VAA14084@vulcan.addy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Francisco Reyes wrote: > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,39624,00.html?st.ne.fd.tohhed.n > i > > Outage after outage Ebay keeps telling users that they are > "taking steps" to prevent from going down. > And it keeps happening. > > Although expensive, at some point I hope they realize that they > must have very serious underlying architectural problems to have > so many outages. > > Their choice of NT and Oracle for one I think may be part of the > problem. > They also have Solaris somewhere in the mix, but this doesn't > seem to have anything to do with their problems. :-) > > Another reason to move more of my auction business to FreeBSD > based Yahoo. :-) > Actually I like their interface better anyway.. And with all > these problems at Ebay I think the other auction sites are > probably getting more business. It's called stupid design syndrome, they have a super powerful sparc system running the entire database. The (multi?) million dollar machine is at capacity and one burp from it and they die for hours at a time. Large central points of failure tend to do just that, fail. This is why clustering many, many machines is the right way to do things (ie. hotmail) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message