In reply to a post by RoosterUK:

One of the advantages of cloud hosting was supposed to be that if a server failed there was another ready to take it's place very quickly and automatically so how do you get a 30 min outage?

Cloud services do not automatically equal resilience. Often you have to buy resilience options. Cloud hosting often means "someone else's server".

However cloud based applications such as email (Gmail / yahoo) are often resilient due to their design, delivered from multiple data centres which replicate the data.

In reply to a post by uno:

In reply to a post by RoosterUK:

...so how do you get a 30 min outage?

Anything outside of the cloud infra (servers/storage) such as network to their servers. I believe they've had a fair share of DoS attacks of late. Related maybe?

Matt

Looks like today is a DDoS attack, they have put it up on the status page. Apparently we could contact support and be moved to another load balancer.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

In reply to a post by RoosterUK:

One of the advantages of cloud hosting was supposed to be that if a server failed there was another ready to take it's place very quickly and automatically so how do you get a 30 min outage?

Cloud services do not automatically equal resilience. Often you have to buy resilience options. Cloud hosting often means "someone else's server".

However cloud based applications such as email (Gmail / yahoo) are often resilient due to their design, delivered from multiple data centres which replicate the data.

TSO own their own Tier 3+ data centre with multiple links so the impression given is that their cloud is very much their own servers, which hopefully is the case.

They had servers spread over 3 datacentres but not sure if that is still the case since they built their centre, perhaps everything was moved to a single site.