[ClearCase_guy]

Feels like large parts of the internet have been crashing lately for various and unconnected reasons. I’m sure it’s all coincidental.

[dayglored]

> Feels like large parts of the internet have been crashing lately for various and unconnected reasons. I’m sure it’s all coincidental.

Auric Goldfinger:

1. Once is happenstance.
2. Twice is coincidence.
3. Three times is enemy action.
4. More than that is just the internet....

[discostu]

The internet is heavily built on central repositories, everybody loves putting the load somewhere else. Unplug one thing and lots of stuff dies. I remember when Google Analytics (the service used to decide how much advertisers have to pay sites) crashed, the internet was basically dead. Commercialization has basically broken the entire model the internet was built on. It used to be all about redundancy and no single point of failure. Now we’ve got half a dozen non-redundant single points of failure.