Depends on the size

My company is lloyds

Their data centre in Leeds

Is fucking HUGE

So fucking expensive to maintain

It’s their biggest building

you can get a bit of paper from amazon citing 99.99% uptime (not sure if they do 5 9s?), at 3am in the morning when shit is totally broken that piece of paper is worth absolutely nothing. your customers dont care about the piece of paper either, they hold the business responsible

so im expecting our 'zomg cloud' phase to end the moment someone puts something actually critical there and it breaks

and the manager will get fired

i think where i'd like to see it used is burst capacity

it makes a lot of sense and the costs work out

Expanding on what you were talking about a minute ago. Having a datacenter is a business in and of itself.

Amazon for example

even large companies tend to rent space from DC companies

Yeah

i worked for rbs once, they have their own genuine buildings or had, at the time

everywhere else ive worked it's leasing space from someone who just leases space and provides power etc

It's all fun until you're locked into a super-provider then they decide for political reasons to terminate

Not something my work has to worry about, but I do

At a principle level

oh and the .com "our DC is this converted storage room with an aircon unit venting through the wall"

BBC was insufferable as usual today

And the SNP leader in parliament needs to be called a useless sack of haggis

is it a haggis or a bag of cocks, who can tell?

I've not been watching parliament today

Nor read the BBC

What's happened?

it will be all anti boris wall to wall i guess?

Well

when boris does stupid shit

it should be anti boris

Work for a big .com: everything here is bang on

"Hurrrr it's not checks on the border if we move the checks 2 miles in from the border hurr@

Its not

And that is why

brexit was voted for

Because the problem is with checking everyone

Not the fucking business and export checks

You insufferable little shit

😉

i like boris a lot, i just wish May hadnt been given enough time to totally ruin the party before he got his opportunity. thanks Gove.