Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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The Telecom Richter Scale. Through constant due diligence and a good exit strategey you can protect yourself from the potential business failure of your web-hosting service. But what about the effects of the continued telecom meltdown? If any of the major ISPs were to turn off its routers and switches we would all be affected. Not only would our web sites become unreachable by the ISP's direct customers, but because of the Internet's complex routing and peering, such a failure would be felt by all sites and all customers. The Internet may be decentralized such that there's no single point of failure, but that also means that any substantial injury will be felt throughout the entire organism. The loss of the WorldCom/UUNET/MCI backbone will rumble like an earthquake throughout the entire Internet.
Posted Thursday, July 25, 2002 8:49:38 AM 
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