[Catalog-sig] Proposal: Move PyPI static data to the cloud for better availability

[Jesus Cea]

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On 15/06/10 16:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> For example, if a single edge server in (say) Australia goes down, 
> Amazon might not count it as an outage for the purpose of calculating 
> their 99.99% reliability since the system as a whole is still up, but 
> conceivably Australian users might see an outage (or at least a 
> slow-down). With N servers, I'd expect N times the number of individual 
> outages, with Amazon presumably only counting it as "system down" if 
> all N servers go down at the same time.

I don't know, but if I were Amazon, I would (automatically) update the
DNS to serve Australia users from any other edge server :).

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