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Old Jan 24, 2011 | 9:41 am
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Originally Posted by strategy9
Honestly, how could they not have a better contingency system in place?

How isn't this site clustered and virtually fail-proof?
It almost certainly is clustered. That only helps if the code supporting it is clean and functional. If the code is bad all the hardware redundancy in the world doesn't help. You just have a more highly available failed system.
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Old Jan 24, 2011 | 9:47 am
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Originally Posted by sbm12
It almost certainly is clustered. That only helps if the code supporting it is clean and functional. If the code is bad all the hardware redundancy in the world doesn't help. You just have a more highly available failed system.
Same goes for database connections. :-:
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