Saturday, July 4, 2009

Seattle fire knocks out Bing/Travel .. what a crackup!

Did you all hear what happened to www.bing.com/travel? Apparently all of microsoft's servers that host their travel section of bing.com were housed at Fisher Plaza. This "Class A, 21st century datacenter" experienced a fire, which knocked out all the websites it hosted, among which was www.bing.com/travel. So much for DRP!! Seriously, if Microsoft is to challenge Google at its game, then they should get their act right. Had Google experienced the same situation, I bet traffic would have been automatically routed to another datacenter that would have kept the website alive while work one done to restore the damages. Talk about Microsoft storing all their eggs in one basket lol!

You can read more at http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10279084-93.html

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