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Originally Posted by Radar
But even if this is your argument it has no merit because Amazon EC2 will allow you to setup a server in minutes on a GIGANTIC server farm with guaranteed uptime, with auto backups, upgrades, etc. and it would still cost a fraction of what you're paying.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2
Do you really think the cellar is going to outlast Amazon? |
I never answered Radar's question because he was being a gigantic dick. The answer was yes, yes, yes! I believe that the Cellar is going to outlast Amazon. That's exactly what I thought at the time of posting and I still believe it today.
Especially today!
Yesterday Amazon's EC2 suffered a massive, massive failure which brought down many of the net's biggest websites. Affected for going on 24 hours are Reddit, Foursquare, Quora and many, many more sites and services.
Now, because their service level guarantee of 99.995% uptime was not met, these websites can demand a refund from their next Amazon bill...
a refund of 10%.
Able to do no business for an entire day and counting, and they get 10% off.