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Jacksonville, FL | Laughable I think its laughable that the area that touts itself as technology central insists on maintaining datacenter assets so close to its HQ.
This is a provincial attitude at its highest.
I don't care if its earthquakes, grid failures or poor staffing levels.
Any of those websites could have had a global load balancer perform a redirect to a back up farm. While yes, it costs money, remember that stock prices and company revenue are also based on its ability to deal with risk.
Any company that relies on that single point of technology for so much of its revenue (regardless of the SLA's the datacenter has) deserves any loss in revenue or stock price the outage creates.
This attitude that the assets have to be within "show off" distance to your VC's, investors or other technorati is poor planning of the utmost.
There is no technical reason on the planet that these sites can't be hosted in any other place other than California. The decisions to host so close to the HQ is an emotional and irrational one and will be their undoing in the future. |
