All your eggs. In one basket.

So here’s my plan. I’ll move my hosting lock stock and barrel to PLDT (provided they actually have hosting rates that are anywhere near realistic), or some universally recognized data exchange (and by universally I mean Globe, Bayantel, Smart, PLDT, etc.), and they’ll be the only reliably accessible sites in the known universe! (and by universe i mean Philippines, which is my target market anyway).

Sounds like a plan ‘no?

Seriously, although all those mighty telcos from Singapore to Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and over here are scrambling all over the place to get those undersea cables fixed, I highly doubt we’ll get anywhere near normal performance until way into February.

I mean, those guys said it themselves in this article, when they said they won’t invest in a backup solution because basically, the chances of a disaster is so remote they pretty much lay down those cables once and forget about it “for a hundred years”.

The moment you have the kind of reliability that brings about the words “a hundred years”, you pretty much forget about it forever. I mean, the server at my client’s office hums quietly for four weeks, and pretty much everyone forgets it occasionally needs an upgrade, at least, until a disaster occurs.

And think about trying to troubleshoot a cable that runs hundreds of miles underwater. It’s hard enough to find where a rat nibbled on a LAN cable in a 20 square meter office, let alone finding a dent or a tear in a hundred mile, submerged one.

Sigh. Oh well, I may be wrong, and maybe these guys really do have a magical way of fixing it like they say they can in a mere 3 weeks. And yeah my example above may be a little too simplistic. Maybe it’s just a matter of changing sections of the cable as opposed to miles of it.

On the other hand, a new business opportunity for web hosting has come up. One that will allow continuous access to websites that have a local target, such as like, uhmm, mine.

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