http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/05/06/twitter-worst-downtime-for-social-networks/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:07:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/05/06/twitter-worst-downtime-for-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Scott Turkow Fri, 09 May 2008 23:41:16 +0000 http://dev.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/05/06/twitter-worst-downtime-for-social-networks/#comment-316 This article sheds a little light to the importance of continuous uptime, particularly in a space like social networking that commands fast and around-the-clock availability. Although Mr. Miller mentions that the strong performance of MySpace and Facebook was likely due to heavier investments in Internet infrastructure, it's worth considering a solution that is able to proactively identify, resolve and prevent outages from occurring could result in significant cost savings for Twitter, which could then be used to further improve its infrastructure. This article sheds a little light to the importance of continuous uptime, particularly in a space like social networking that commands fast and around-the-clock availability. Although Mr. Miller mentions that the strong performance of MySpace and Facebook was likely due to heavier investments in Internet infrastructure, it’s worth considering a solution that is able to proactively identify, resolve and prevent outages from occurring could result in significant cost savings for Twitter, which could then be used to further improve its infrastructure.

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