http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/01/16/joyent-outage-tied-to-software-updates/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/01/16/joyent-outage-tied-to-software-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-247 Jonah Paransky Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:28:47 +0000 http://dev.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/01/16/joyent-outage-tied-to-software-updates/#comment-247 The focus of these stories - Twitter, Joyent, etc - is about blame. From my perspective there is an important lesson here...users expect 100% availability, even from cutting edge Web 2.0 applications. It doesn't matter if the service is free (Twitter) or paid for (Joyent). The stakes are high and downtime can be tolerated less and less. The focus of these stories – Twitter, Joyent, etc – is about blame. From my perspective there is an important lesson here…users expect 100% availability, even from cutting edge Web 2.0 applications. It doesn’t matter if the service is free (Twitter) or paid for (Joyent). The stakes are high and downtime can be tolerated less and less.

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