The take-away here is clear: don't trust Gandi with anything you care about.
The take-away here is clear: don't trust Gandi with anything you care about.
I don't know if I expect a postmortem to say "sorry", and I think you are being needlessly harsh. But I agree this level of service doesn't seem up to current best in class. Like Amazon etc. (Which of course still have unexpeted outages very occasionally, although a 5 day time to recovery would certainly be... unusual).
But this partially shows how much expectations/standards have raised in the past few-10 years. When an unacceptable not up to par level of reliably still involves no data loss, we're doing pretty good. And I think "don't trust Gandi with anything you care about" is probably an exagerated response. But yes, they don't seem to be providing mega-cloud-service-provider level of service.
See this thread for the support at the time:
https://twitter.com/andreaganduglia/status/12152827193300664...
I still think the fact that there was no data loss, and we're still on the edge of calling it unacceptable incompetence, is worth noting, as to how far our expectations and standards have come. Which is good of course.
> Hi Andrea. It is confirmed we have lost data and we are terribly sorry for that. However, please note that what happenend[sp] could happen to any web host.
Customers that were forced to migrate to a different webhost had to restore from whatever backups they had, and they lost data for sure. Even if Gandi ultimately recovered everything (and it's not completely clear if they did) at that point the customer data/databases have already been forked so it's too late.
> We managed to restore the data and bring services back online the morning of January 13.
Is that wrong? It's bad to lose data, it's even worse to tell people you didn't lose data in one place when you did, and tell them you did lose data in another.
They do so a bit here: https://news.gandi.net/en/2020/01/major-incident-on-our-host...
>We’re very sorry for this truly unfortunate incident and we offer our sincere apologies to anyone impacted.
What about any data that would have accumulated in those 5 days? This was storage for their IAAS and PAAS products, so anyone using those lost access for 5 days?
> The take-away here is clear: don't trust Gandi with anything you care about.
The take-away is not this one. Its: backup anything you care about.
> "Snapshots allow you to create a backup copy of a volume"
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EN2UZ6TX4AAMe-H?format=png&name=...
They are doing a lot of preaching about backups when failing to do internal backups (not customer facing backups) of their own products.
They also failed to address their abysmal responses on Twitter that essentially belittled and poked fun at the affected users.
>We’re very sorry for this truly unfortunate incident and we offer our sincere apologies to anyone impacted.
https://news.gandi.net/en/2020/01/major-incident-on-our-host... (linked in the Postmortem)