Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:42:08 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <francisco@natserv.com> To: "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@rush.net> Cc: "FreeBSd Chat list" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Will Ebay ever learn? Message-ID: <199907230341.XAA18999@vulcan.addy.com>
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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:35:13 -0400 (EDT), Alfred Perlstein wrote: >On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Francisco Reyes wrote: >> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,39624,00.html?st.ne.fd.tohhed.ni >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) I didn't know they had a few large machines running the show.. Which brings us back to my previous comment. >> Although expensive, at some point I hope they realize that they >> must have very serious underlying architectural problems to have >> so many outages. They need to do with a different approach and I agree with you that clustering is a much better approach. I don't recall Yahoo ever having a major outage. The even more interesting thing about Ebay is that I don't believe any of their major outages was because of hardware (at least that I can recall). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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