Cloud proof of failure - was:: wikileaks unreachable

[simonw at zynet.net (Simon Waters)]

On Monday 06 December 2010 09:47:43 Jay Mitchell wrote:
>
> "The Cloud" went down? I think not.

It did for at least one customer.

> Having ones account terminated as opposed to an outage caused by DDoS are
> two very different things.

Although not for all DNS providers.

There are operational lessons here. But do they boil down to technical issues 
may not be the limiting factor on your uptime. As commented already by 
someone, perhaps time to review plans for responses to non-technical threats 
to availability.