How One Drunk Driver Sent My Company To the Cloud 290
snydeq writes "Andrew Oliver offers further proof that drunk driving and on-site servers don't mix. Oliver, who had earlier announced a New Year's resolution to go all-in on cloud services, had that business strategy expedited when a drunk driver, fleeing a hit-and-run, drove his SUV directly into the beauty shop next door to his company's main offices. 'Our servers were down for eight hours, and various services were intermittent for at least 12 hours. Had things been worse, we could have lost everything. Like our customers, we needed HA and DR. Moreover, we thought, maybe our critical services like email, our website, and Jira should be in a real data center. This made going all-cloud a top priority for us rather than "when we get to it."' Oliver writes, detailing his company's resultant hurry-up migration plan to 100 percent cloud services."
For all the drunks out there! (Score:4, Funny)
SADD (Score:2, Funny)
Servers Against Drunk Drivers
This proves that we need (Score:5, Funny)
Re: why cloud? (Score:5, Funny)
It's the latest buzz word. I'm sure if this had happened 100 years ago he'd be talking about moving everything to a building with electricity.
He should have had his DR Plan in place rather than scrambling after his outage. I guess the cloud is where you go when your business forgot its umbrella.
Re:why cloud? (Score:5, Funny)
- My site is hosted on a server in Acme Inc.'s facilities in New York / London / Tokyo. It's in a datacenter.
Or so they tell you.
Still, no reason not to trust them. Sure, they've had some bad reviews from that one guy in Arizona or somewhere, but I've been very happy with their giant catapults.