GreenfrogCT
July 24th, 2006, 06:00 PM
On Saturday I backed up my in-house development and testing box which had been running an old version of Mandrake and installed Dapper on it. My plan for Sunday was to do all of the updates, install and configure the various services I use on it, etc.
Obviously those plans got changed. ](*,)
(For those who have not been following, the entire *.ubuntu.com domain was down for most of the day because of a power failure.)
The event brings up a very important issue as far as I am concerned. If Ubuntu is to become a serious contender for business use (and I would love to see that happen) having only one repository that is a serious single-point-of-falure is simply unacceptable.
That is the only word for it: Unacceptable.
For me yesterday all it meant is that I got to spend more time in the pool than I had originally intended. :D If I were using Ubuntu in a mission critical application and had planned to do a weekend upgrade I would have been a very unhappy camper, and would probably have reconsidered my choice.
In my business (I am a presales design engineer for a communications and networking company) a big part of what I do is design and recommend data and VOIP solutions for businesses and municipalites. Having no single point of failure is key for most of the entities I deal with.
Isn't it time for an Ubuntu repository mirror in another location?
:mrgreen: Ribbitt
Obviously those plans got changed. ](*,)
(For those who have not been following, the entire *.ubuntu.com domain was down for most of the day because of a power failure.)
The event brings up a very important issue as far as I am concerned. If Ubuntu is to become a serious contender for business use (and I would love to see that happen) having only one repository that is a serious single-point-of-falure is simply unacceptable.
That is the only word for it: Unacceptable.
For me yesterday all it meant is that I got to spend more time in the pool than I had originally intended. :D If I were using Ubuntu in a mission critical application and had planned to do a weekend upgrade I would have been a very unhappy camper, and would probably have reconsidered my choice.
In my business (I am a presales design engineer for a communications and networking company) a big part of what I do is design and recommend data and VOIP solutions for businesses and municipalites. Having no single point of failure is key for most of the entities I deal with.
Isn't it time for an Ubuntu repository mirror in another location?
:mrgreen: Ribbitt