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- by someguy999 June 18, 2008 10:31 AM PDT
- once again, who's the guy that's willing to bet his business on Amazon staying up? Don't we all remember not just amazon going down a couple weeks ago for their retail, but in addition their hosted app platform went down like 2 months ago. And google's went down just yesterday...
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(3 Comments)Just because something feasible, doesn't mean its business changing and you should. At least I know if my servers go down, I can immediately understand the issues and execute and immediate course of action.