oh look at that another major online outage that means you can't book travel
find a date or order that refill of toilet paper you so desperately need
seriously send help if it seems to you like many of the sites you depend on are
going down more frequently you're definitely not alone but it's not like
facebook and amazon are running on Windows vista so why the heck do these
multi-billion dollar services seem so unreliable
it might be easy to blame some of the high profile outages we've seen over the
past few years on the coven pandemic due to the huge amount of load placed on
cloud servers from folks working from home or otherwise staying in i mean
it's a lot of zoom calls but while stay-at-home orders and remote work did
play a part critical services experiencing downtime was already
becoming an all too frequent problem before the pandemic
and it's still a big concern even now that much of the world is trying to get
back to normal but like most wide scale problems
there are many things at play for starters round the clock internet usage
became very common very quickly think about the explosion in always connected
iot devices people leaving high def videos playing all night so they can
fall asleep to them and massive game and software downloads that often take place
while users are in bed these things just weren't that common
only 10 years ago but the explosion and net traffic since then has overloaded
infrastructure that was only designed to handle peak traffic during certain hours
of the day but with all the resources that big tech has why does this problem
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freshbooks.com techquickie and get started today so the fact that big tech
is so well big is actually part of the issue
here even though the internet is a pretty big place there are actually a
fairly small number of services that help run a huge number of sites for
example amazon web services provides back-end cloud computing for everything
from your netflix recommendations to your roomba vacuum to your venmo account
to even your airline reservations and of course aws has had numerous outages that
have made headlines with causes as diverse as server cooling failures nasty
weather overloaded systems and ddos attacks amazon does have redundancies
built in but even so the fact that one company helps support so much net
traffic leaves one very obvious point of failure for lots of services that you
didn't even know were reliant on amazon or one of its few large-scale
competitors like microsoft azure or google cloud
and to top it all off your isp is routing much of this traffic over cable
lines that haven't received upgrades to improve capacity in a very long time
which can lead to congestion in the last mile of wiring that goes to your house
and there isn't even enough fiber on the back end right now to keep up with
projected increases in data usage especially as mobile carriers continue
to roll out 5g so until cloud systems
become more secure and more redundant and telecom providers build out better
infrastructure i would not count on 100 uptime but the good news is that these
outages give you an excuse to stop mindlessly scrolling through your phone
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