Posted by Phisherman on 01/16/51 11:48

On Tue, 23 May 2006 01:50:23 GMT, "Mark Jones"
<noemail@mindspring.com> wrote:

>Bob wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 May 2006 04:57:31 -0400, Derek Janssen
>> <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> It looks like Netflix is a goner.
>>>> Their website don't even exist anymore.
>>
>>> Amazing!...They always go bankrupt at 2am on Sundays! ;)
>>
>> What are you guys talking about. Netflix is up and running.
>
>I think it is a reference to the fact that this is the most common
>time for large websites to be taken down for maintenance.
>They don't want to do it during the day and lose a lot of
>business.
>


True. Two-o'clock AM Sunday is the typical time to backup servers and
install upgrades. I used to work in a hospital data center where they
had to change this time to AM Friday--apparently hospitals are very
busy with weekend injuries. Netflix is alive and doing exceptionally
well.

Google has thousands of servers and I understand there is a server
going down each hour, but that doesn't have much effect on Google's
massive network which is not dependent on any server.

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