Restarting the free accounting search

Posted Jul 31, 2017 19:01 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Restarting the free accounting search by felixfix
Parent article: Restarting the free accounting search

You're splitting hairs here. What matters is that the cloud service remains available to you, not *why* it is suddenly unavailable.

It doesn't matter if the service outage is caused by incompetence by the provider, bankruptcy, hackers, puntive price increases, popular uprising, road work, solar flares, a rogue ISP in Pakistan pushing bad routes, or a gardener with a shovel. Regardless of the reason, the symptom is the same -- the service is not available, and if you need it to function as a business, you're sunk until it's available again.

One has to plan for outages.

Restarting the free accounting search

Posted Jul 31, 2017 19:12 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

But note that "an outage of this magnitude kills the business" is a reasonable plan, if an outage of that magnitude is expected to be a rare enough event. You could, after all, plan for "aliens obliterate the continent I'm currently on", but it's such an unlikely event that there's no point planning for it.

Similarly, a small business may reasonably plan on the basis that loss of a cloud service for more than (say) 5 days kills the business, and that they'll ensure that they're close enough to up-to-date to cope with a 5 day outage.