One failure does not a trend make.
If another service flops in the next few months, then yes I agree, the house of cards is collapsing, but right now that statement is a little premature.
If another service flops in the next few months, then yes I agree, the house of cards is collapsing, but right now that statement is a little premature.
... I'm sure we'll survive.
(1) Yeah yeah, I know, a drastic over simplification. There's Foundry LB hardware, round-robin DNS at different sites, BGP failover, etc.
There's a big difference betwen that an the broken links since the web began...
And when you make a request through a shortener, there are two independent SPOF's.
Also, if you go to www.example.com/here/there/article and get a 404, you navigate up in the hierachy, and search for the content. If you get a 500 or server is down, you can try later. If either happens at the shortener-level, you're SOL.