Google Compute Engine is down, bringing half the internet with it

[Somepotato]

IIRC the big 3 are working on decentralizing a bit to improve fault tolerance, but... yeah.

Even going with a dedi like through OVH/etc is safer because you're not at the whims of some hypervisor/etc dying, also that even IBM has options. Diversify amongst providers people

[Mighty AU]

Not sure if this was related, but at work, one of our two terminal servers has been offline today. Everyone has been forced onto the one remaining server and the load means everyone is timing out. It’s online now, but we were at the point of calling it a day and going to the pub

[Peachy]

The thing is, it's not like they have a monopoly over those services. The barrier to entry on hosting is really, really low compared to essentially any other media hosting platform (compare to: Television, record labels, physical storefronts, etc). It's completely possible for individuals and companies to not use these services, they're just significantly cheaper so people usually choose to do so. Breaking them up wouldn't actually make anything better(at least not in this realm), it would just make shit more expensive.

[Glitchvid]

I use GCP for a lot of my DNS, and the primary reason is it's something I couldn't effectively roll out on my own, and I generally trust google is still going to have higher availability than I could pull off (I think I have around 99.95% on my servers).
This is probably true for most people too.

[Dravus]

I'm getting snaps now from like.. 8-12 hours ago. One hell of a downage

[Hey I'm Grump!]

I used to think in Deus Ex that "blowing up the internet" was silly, but now...

[StrawberryClock]

literally

https://youtu.be/ntICHMV-WMA?t=38