This. Its important to understand monitoring systems usually set up with bunch of generic sensors/thresholds, and some people tend to believe that you just install monitoring system and thats it.
It requires building risk assessment model and sensors/thresholds/alerts around it. This is quite some work which is very subjective to every case.
This is not a provider scarcity problem - there are numerous providers out there, but user's problem - they voluntarily choose crappy service at large scale, believing sales managers "it's reliable".
Terms like reliability have specific definitions in computer systems:
Term | Definition | Measurement
-------------- ----------------------------------- -------------------------------------------
Availability | Basically, system uptime | A percentage over time
Durability | Basically, persistence of data | A percentage over time
Resiliency | Basically, self-healing | A probability within a time period (usually)
Reliability | Basically, operational probability | A probability within a time period (usually)
Fault tolerant | Basically, it cannot fail | Binary (it has faults or it doesn't)
Unlike more mathy fields, reliability is more of a "quality" that is qualified by one or more measurements (like Mean Time Between Failure). You define your metric, you give an estimate of what that value should be, and if you come in under it, you're reliable.
AWS has always stretched the truth when it comes to these numbers, but they do come pretty close to them most of the time. If you can find a different provider who'll even offer a number, it is usually not as close, and there's usually no contract that has any teeth to enforce it. Or they'll give very vague claims that don't get into specifics.
At least, not for "cloud providers" (other than the hyperscalers). You can find a datacenter who'll give you a number, but that's for like, their power reliability. That's a very different thing than saying "there is X probability over Y time that a server I run for you will not go down". Partly because it's pretty freakin' hard to wrangle all the different things that can go wrong with so much certainty that you can put a number on it. So most people give things like reliability, durability, availability, etc numbers for specific components of a system.
AWS S3 offers 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability. Now, did AWS S3 go down completely during the outage? Not as far as I'm aware. Maybe the control plane did, or a management portal, or billing, or something? But I'll bet you the PUT, GET, DELETE operations kept on flowing within 99.99% availability. Some other components in AWS may have been failing like crazy (which may have no guarantees...), but that one component probably stayed up within its guaranteed amount.
Design your apps to run on AWS using the components with specific guarantees, and you can estimate how reliable your end product will be. As far as I know, nobody has a better track record for meeting the guarantees. Even considering events like this.
I would not call it evil. Orgs are _voluntarily_ making the choice to lock in for expensive useless proprietary software by either being stupid or - actually evil - receiving kickbacks from those proprietary companies.
Every manager signing off the contract with vendor lock in should understand possible repercussions. Its not a rocket science. Yep they will screw you along the way with prices. Yea, that sales rep saying they won't is a lying bastard that can't care ess about your business the moment your pen raised from your signature in contract.
I understand all of that. We made a calculated risk, sure... back in 2007, and we've been happy to pay since. Only now, in one year, do the screws turn so tightly.
But at least shareholder value is going up somewhere.
Same here. Avoiding UPF is extremely easy, but of course big food doesn't want you to know that.
Not sure why you put Trump here - it wasnt started with him and while his governance does make some efforts in the correct direction, I doubt they can achieve much fighting Big Food.
The food budget for many households under Trump have nearly doubled, mostly due to many large commercial farms having their largest customer axed, USAid, and also being unable to operate the farm using foreign slave labor, er, I mean, migrant workers.
I am not sure what are those "some households" you referring to, but my budget did double indeed, but under biden admin. Just one thing is ballooning price of eggs, that was cooled down under current administration.
Farms didn’t used to be operated using foreign slave labor and I’m not aware of food prices ever going down in nominal terms as that ramped up. So the foreign slave labor likely papered over some of the monetary expansion that happened in the past.
As a paying user of fastmail I would like them to to focus on their mail "feature", which is sucking big time, instead of doing bells and whistles with "desktop apps"
Imho horrible is too strong. They could be better.
Recently they let through a phishing attempt against their own service. It was clearly not from them (to me) and didn't have a green dot or whatever. I was surprised and a bit disappointed that I had to see it at all.
The one time I sent out a mass email using another server and it arrived in my spam folder, Fastmail Customer Service gave me instructions which would allow them to look at the email and help me figure out what the issue was, but I decided not to bother and didn't use that server again.
Is that one thousand plus? (Certainly not one million plus I hope.)
Either amount is pretty bad, although I suppose if you are a well-known person that people are trying to reach, that would make sense.
If not, and it's a bunch of newsletters or spam, I think you should try to make better email choices. (Be more discretionary with how you give out or publish your email address(es).)
It’s been excellent for me. I recently had an issue with my Yolink notifications being marked spam and phishing. I raised it with support, they immediately escalated, and it got sorted quickly.
> going to save the car industry in Europe and stopping it falling entirely into the hands of the Chinese is with.... tarrifs
Europe has destroyed it's own car making industry. Extreme taxation, self-exclusion from usage of reasonably priced resources among things that buried it.
While at the same time chinese focused on making their cars better. It's as simple as that.
Now there is no way to stop chinese cars from penetrating markets. Tariffs will just buy some time. Eventually noone will buy expensive and crappy european cars.
It's a sad conclusion for someone who dislike chinese cars and been benz user for few decades. My next car won't be benz and i fear it may be chinese huawei, as the current one spends more time in workshop while being a shadow of technological and design marvel .
Security is way more nuanced than "hey look I left my door open and nothing happened!". You are suggesting, perhaps inadvertently, a very dangerous thing.
> 95% of VPNs sell your data. It's where they make their money. It's absolutely insane the push-back I get when I say this online.
People love to stick to what they irrationally believe in. I would give you push back as well by saying 95% is a very conservative number. I would say 98-99%
But hey, they say they don't sell my data isn't it?
