@wirestyle22 said in Azure Outage... Again:

@scottalanmiller said in Azure Outage... Again:

The loss of knowledge of concrete was such a big deal that until the mid 1700s, we had gone over a thousand years without any idea of how concrete was made. So Rome was making concrete builds for hundreds of years longer than we've known about concrete in modern times.

That means that for well over a millennium... humans had to look upon the structures of the Roman Empire and say... that's so neat, what the heck is that material that they used?

It's interesting what history lost. Archimedes made steam engines 2000 years before we figured it out as well but it was useless at the time because slave labor was so cheap.

The only reason why some empires f.e. Russia did exist so long (and keeps existing BTW).

@scottalanmiller said:

@BBigford said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Minion-Queen said:

Keep in mind we do lots of cloud stuff and have never had issues like this with any other providers.

Yeah... zero that we've ever seen with DO or Vultr, only tiny ones with RS and very rare. Never seen anything like Azure. And never met other people so often with issues.

I recommend TONS of people to DO. Haven't tried Vultr yet though. RS is super expensive. Do you find any benefits with them over DO? I've heard some things like console access, but haven't looked into it.

DO, RS and Vultr all have console access. That's the same. RS has a slightly different performance profile. The big deals with RS are the full range of features that they offer. But these days, their benefits are rapidly dwindling.

Nice, thanks. I'll have to take another look. I've simply never recommended RS due to the price. DO's pricing is extremely affordable for small-medium businesses and people wanting to simply setup a test lab. I haven't broken down the pricing for medium-large scale, it just didn't seem logical based on the price (though the company I'm at now doesn't buy semi-new servers, www.insightsystemsonline.com sometimes has some really nice servers with a 3 year warranty). I looked last week and their inventory is nothing to write home about. The company I'm at now only buys straight from Dell.

Console remains up in Greece and down for everyone in the US.

@scottalanmiller said:

What does Drush do? What requirements does it have that keep it from getting installed?

Drush is a CLI tool for Drupal. You can pretty much manage your whole site with it. But you need root access (or sudo).

If you update Drupal manually on shared hosting you pretty much have to back up the whole site, redownload the new Drupal version, reupload your sites folder (where all your info is), change the DB settings file, and chmod it.

With drush you type drush up drupal and you're done.

Or if you want to update everything (modules and themes also) type drush up

It's more of a pain with shared hosting to do all of that also.

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller

but it uses Ubuntu 14.04, I believe, which I am not going to touch

You say from your 14.04 based Mint laptop 😛

I know, I hate that they decided to do that.

@scottalanmiller I was planning on it

@scottalanmiller said:
Wow, I need to read a bit more... apparently skimming the article and the OP didn't help with comprehension.

I think it is time to start sending sweaters to hell. They'll need it!

No different than the Verizon Netflix issues.

Everyone has been wondering what will happen to Suse and MS now.

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

@smartkid808 Are you already a customer with Arvixe?

Yeah, he went with them.

Looks like he signed up with ASO... or are the one and the same now (owned by same company?) lol.

OH!! You are correct, good Sir. I was indeed mistaken. My folly.

I doubt that they will be making any "visible" Linux products for some time, at the least.

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller posted an almost click bait worthy title claiming that Azure was down. Azure was never down and there was no outage. He lost access to services because Microsoft closed or deleted the account improperly.

That's still Azure down. To us and our customers, Azure was completely down. All servers offline. It's an outage same as any other. It's localized in its impact to an account based "region" rather than to a datacenter-based region or whatever, but it is an outage just the same. The system was supposed to be up, and it was down and Microsoft was unable to bring it up. Even to Microsoft's own technical team it was an outage that they could not fix (for half a day.)

They maybe tied to the admin account you had.

Only so shocking, Microsoft was making UNIX systems before they got into Windows. Xenix was the original Microsoft UNIX.

TL:DR can you summarize it?

What are containers in 50 words or less.😨

@Reid-Cooper said:

@Dashrender said:

I have no idea how Azure licenses stuff - I wouldn't have thought that you could buy a Datacenter server license for MS's own cloud solution, but what do I know?

I think that DC might be the license that is provided. I do not believe that you can bring your own license, but what you get does come with a license of some sort.

Getting a DC license in that case seems weird to me then, unless it allows you more resource usage than standard (does it in Server 2012 R2?) Of course it allow allows for you to run all the VMs under a single hardware server as well - but I'm guessing that the licensing you're getting as part of Azure isn't a full DC license, additionally, because it is cloud based, you wouldn't be properly licensed in a situation like that anyway since MS could move your workload onto different hardware without you ever knowing it, and now you'd be out of compliance.

So, if you really need to run 10 servers on Azure, you just need to purchase 10 instances, right?