computing the old way

Hosting company finally answered "seems that your server was physically turned off". How and why remains a total mystery. Drives me nuts! Cindy Croxton -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Toby Thain Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:50 AM To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: computing the old way On 16/04/13 11:21 AM, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus wrote: problems.. Au contraire, it was probably *human* error! DNS infrastructure itself is ridiculously robust. Take Amazon's Route 53, for example. But humans remain fallible and the infrastructure will be perfectly faithful to what we ask. This is top of mind because I made a very silly DNS error recently (after switching to Route 53 to get resilience and consistent name servers) that took my site down to much of the internet (including Google) for a week. The infrastructure is no help if the data is wrong! *blushes* --Toby Hosting company finally answered "seems that your server was physically turned off". How and why remains a total mystery. Drives me nuts! Cindy Croxton ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6247 - Release Date: 04/15/13