From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 22 20:42:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from vulcan.addy.com (vulcan.addy.com [207.239.68.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4661567A for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:42:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from francisco@natserv.com) Received: from your-name (freyes.static.inch.com [207.240.212.43]) by vulcan.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA18999; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:41:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907230341.XAA18999@vulcan.addy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Alfred Perlstein" Cc: "FreeBSd Chat list" Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:42:08 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Will Ebay ever learn? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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