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Amazon.com Web Service’s hosted storage service went down Friday morning, frustrating many Web site customers and refreshing concerns with the ballyhooed approach of cloud computing….
The glitch sent a ripple through the blogosphere as Web entrepreneurs, who are increasingly using Amazon’s hosted computing services, pondered whether they needed a back-up plan or a more traditional hosting provider.
On the forum, some people complained about how the service glitch essentially put them out of business temporarily.
"My new sites hosts over 25,000 images on Amazon and I wake up to notice major issues this morning," wrote one customer. "The S3 service is great but this just proves you can’t rely on it, this is a major issue especially since it’s been down for so long."
That particular Web site operator managed to put an in-house back-up system online, a job which should be automated, according to the forum posting.
This isn’t the first time Amazon has run into problems keeping its computing services running without fail. … read more here:
What can I say? I didn’t post this to embarrass Amazon … I posted this to wake up the few among you who will listen.
Don’t put your livelihood in the hands of one service or provider, no matter who runs it. Amazon apparently suffered an outage. So will every single other web provider you can think of.
If you are trying to make money online, will your action be to failover (preferably automatically) to your already in place backup? Or will your action be to maon and bitch and bitch about Amazon’s performance on a forum.
I don’t know which course you’ll chose. I do know which course will make you the most money.
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