Doug, even if unsubstantiated, the snip in the upstream link says quite a bit about what is taking place today in many "e-xyz" venues:
"Ebay goes down every few weeks, and Exodus is their hoster," says
Schaaf. "Exodus has experienced several outages." Indeed, on Friday,
eBay announced that it was moving part of its Web hosting business to
Exodus rival AboveNet Communications.
As a consultant with a good recollection of earlier goings in the practice, I know what it means to get shot in the head on occasion when a client needs a way out of their own incompetent doings. It comes with the territory.
The above snippet gives me cause to wonder if this is what is taking place here, but I have no way of knowing. I have no way of validating these statements.
But if we assign to these comments any degree of credibility - they actually do speak to some obvious goings on elsewhere where I can attest to similar circumstances - then it also says something about the customer's own diligence and skills, or lack thereof, and the modality that they have created for themselves.
These situations reinforce what I stated previously in the following post:
Message 11496347
"[The current state of affairs] speaks to the broader implications of fast track
market penetration, and some of the inevitable breakage which occurs
when ill-prepared neophytes decide to join the rush into Internet
infrastructure, at the potential peril of their unknowing users."
"We're in a gold rush kind of frenzied pace right now in this industry, and
things are taking place that would only show up as a cartoon, as a pointed
joke, intended to exaggerate some obvious malady - as things NOT to
do, in common carrier training manuals, only a short time ago."
I'll go a step further. Some of today's e-nonsense vendors will go forward with untested platforms, fully aware and prepared that they will need to do repairs on the fly. If they don't, then they will lose share, because their competitorss are doing precisely the same thing.
Which strategy will win out out in the end? This will depend on the tolerance of the customers in those situations, whose own interlocking platforms [with those of the providers'] are also suspect in many instances. For, they are taking part in the gold rush, too.
If the customer base empathizes with these conditions due to what I've stated in the preceding paragraph, and they are tolerant to the downsides of these growth tactics, then the damage will be contained to some limited extent for the provider. This happens, since many user organizations are in no position to throw stones.
OTOH, if users are from the traditional business sector whose track records depend on glass house-like bullet-proof data center performance, then they will retreat or flee entirely and continue to pursue their own infrastructure development. Or wait for a bona fide hosting operator to come along.
A firm like eBay? Where do they fit in? They are probably working in the same modality as the neophyte hosting startups I've alluded to, so it's not unlikely that they too will tolerate some degree of breakage while distributing their risk. What do you think? Comments welcome.
Regards, Frank Coluccio
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