Wear your medal with prideto75ne wrote: i think it is "TREAT AS MUSHROOMS"
Betfair Down / Betfair site crash
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andyfuller
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I've never come across the phrase 'clashing me sovereign'!
It must be something we don't say oop North!
Jeff
It must be something we don't say oop North!
Jeff
to75ne wrote:what does what mean in english?Ferru123 wrote:What does that mean in English?
Jeff
to75ne wrote: as a puca cockney i dont want it clashing me soverign.
cockneys, in particular east end and sarf london ones, tend to wear lots of gold (maybe not so much these days). the most prized are really awful medals bigger the better, fat choker chains and soverign rings.Ferru123 wrote:I've never come across the phrase 'clashing me sovereign'!
It must be something we don't say oop North!
Jeff
to75ne wrote:Ferru123 wrote:What does that mean in English?
Jeff
i hate gold jewellery on men, just a not so private p take of friends/family fellow east enders. bad caricature.
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SilentDave
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I've worked in hosting for 12 years and have founded a hosting company and more recently a cloud services company.
The technology to avoid the type of issues that Betfair have had recently is tried and tested. They could have redundancy at data centre level so they could lose an entire data centre with no client impact. Databases can be replicated in realtime so no need to restore from backups or anything like that - it's all standard stuff but it doesn't come cheap.
What probably happens in practice is that the FD weighs up the cost of providing sufficient redundancy with the financial impact of any outages due to lack of redundancy. With no real competition to Betfair we all go crawling back after any technical issues and normal service as far as they are concerned is resumed.
Unless there is a significant financial cost to them due to these outages I wouldn't hold my breath on them putting measures in place to prevent any recurrence.
It makes you wonder what would happen if they had a really major issue at the data centre level - do they have a disaster recovery plan in place or would we be sitting there for days waiting for the site to reappear?
The technology to avoid the type of issues that Betfair have had recently is tried and tested. They could have redundancy at data centre level so they could lose an entire data centre with no client impact. Databases can be replicated in realtime so no need to restore from backups or anything like that - it's all standard stuff but it doesn't come cheap.
What probably happens in practice is that the FD weighs up the cost of providing sufficient redundancy with the financial impact of any outages due to lack of redundancy. With no real competition to Betfair we all go crawling back after any technical issues and normal service as far as they are concerned is resumed.
Unless there is a significant financial cost to them due to these outages I wouldn't hold my breath on them putting measures in place to prevent any recurrence.
It makes you wonder what would happen if they had a really major issue at the data centre level - do they have a disaster recovery plan in place or would we be sitting there for days waiting for the site to reappear?
If the technology exists then fair enough but I've seen major financial exchanges that take a lot more commission than bet fair rake in go down and be down for hours which obviously don't use that technology so I can't see betfair implimentihg it.
