Yesterday, the Amazon EC2 Europe service suffered a major outage due to lightning. Yes, lightning is a terrible thing, but isn’t the point of the cloud based services “reliability”? Surely they wouldn’t have all their metaphorical European eggs in one basket? Surely the loss of ONE major data centre wouldn’t cause an issue at all.

Well, apparently I’m wrong.

My non-cloud based server in London with Tagadab has had less downtime than Amazon EC2 Europe in the last 2 years.

Oh well.