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oh look at that another major online outage that means you can't book travel

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find a date or order that refill of toilet paper you so desperately need

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seriously send help if it seems to you like many of the sites you depend on are

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going down more frequently you're definitely not alone but it's not like

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facebook and amazon are running on Windows vista so why the heck do these

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multi-billion dollar services seem so unreliable

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it might be easy to blame some of the high profile outages we've seen over the

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past few years on the coven pandemic due to the huge amount of load placed on

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cloud servers from folks working from home or otherwise staying in i mean

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it's a lot of zoom calls but while stay-at-home orders and remote work did

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play a part critical services experiencing downtime was already

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becoming an all too frequent problem before the pandemic

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and it's still a big concern even now that much of the world is trying to get

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back to normal but like most wide scale problems

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there are many things at play for starters round the clock internet usage

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became very common very quickly think about the explosion in always connected

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iot devices people leaving high def videos playing all night so they can

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fall asleep to them and massive game and software downloads that often take place

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while users are in bed these things just weren't that common

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only 10 years ago but the explosion and net traffic since then has overloaded

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infrastructure that was only designed to handle peak traffic during certain hours

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of the day but with all the resources that big tech has why does this problem

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seem to be getting worse instead of getting better we'll tell you right

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freshbooks.com techquickie and get started today so the fact that big tech

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is so well big is actually part of the issue

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here even though the internet is a pretty big place there are actually a

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fairly small number of services that help run a huge number of sites for

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example amazon web services provides back-end cloud computing for everything

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from your netflix recommendations to your roomba vacuum to your venmo account

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to even your airline reservations and of course aws has had numerous outages that

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have made headlines with causes as diverse as server cooling failures nasty

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weather overloaded systems and ddos attacks amazon does have redundancies

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built in but even so the fact that one company helps support so much net

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traffic leaves one very obvious point of failure for lots of services that you

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didn't even know were reliant on amazon or one of its few large-scale

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competitors like microsoft azure or google cloud

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and to top it all off your isp is routing much of this traffic over cable

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lines that haven't received upgrades to improve capacity in a very long time

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which can lead to congestion in the last mile of wiring that goes to your house

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and there isn't even enough fiber on the back end right now to keep up with

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projected increases in data usage especially as mobile carriers continue

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to roll out 5g so until cloud systems

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become more secure and more redundant and telecom providers build out better

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infrastructure i would not count on 100 uptime but the good news is that these

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outages give you an excuse to stop mindlessly scrolling through your phone

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and go touch some grass thanks for watching guys if you like this video hit

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