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"We messed up bad. We launched without having a backup procedure in place, and without the resources to make it happen. This was a hard-learned lesson that won’t happen again. We have no one except ourselves to blame."

You know how you messed up? By not using something like AWS - EC2 - Snapshots. Or even S3 or Glacier. What is this trend of devs doing Operations? As a Sysadmin with a Compsci/dev background, it blows my mind constantly.

Great, you know how to move around the CLI, but are you versed in how to maintain a proper and robust system?

Also, why weren't you using something like SES for your email alerts?

No worries. Happens to the best of us! Looking forward to your reply. Sorry about the forwardness of it.

I tried sending you an email but there seems to be a problem with the MX record associated with your domain. Mail is being rejected.

For whatever it's worth, we use Jabber group functions. This is used exclusively in our tech office. No other group in the company uses it.

I'm entirely aware of the financial situation. How is calling my employer a pump and dump scam NOT spiteful when I've worked on this project from the beginning?

Edit: Also, I don't appreciate you posting that. It's completely off-topic. Keep it classy.

As the sysadmin to a company that does use both S3 and Cloudfront, I'm a little shocked anyone would think to use S3 for distribution. A little testing will reveal just how slow S3 can be.

You're doing something horribly wrong. I work for a live streaming company and we make extensive use of Varnish. It can probably solve the problem you're describing.

You're definitely doing it wrong.

They're using DNS for DB communication. That's a major faux pas.

How about they focus on launching in other markets first? I heard they were launching in Canada, months ago. Still nothing. And now they want to take on video?

One thing at a time Spotify.

Seeing that your site is offline, I'm going to have to disagree with you.

-Sysadmin

Very cool. We're in the live streaming business and currently using Wowza to redistribute our content via several distribution layers.

I wonder if they'll release the source eventually...

Seems sketchy that I can't view the available numbers before signing up. I almost signed up but without that information, I was skeptical and opted not to continue.

I just signed up for the trial. I hope to receive an invitation as we're actively using Galera on AWS-EC2 right now and experimenting with RDS.

We are a live event streaming company that expects several million viewers per event so something scalable/highly-available is what we're looking for.

fingers crossed for that 'invite'.

I welcome metaphors but your use was...well, shit. You basically dropped the word cancer in there then moved on without fleshing out the thought. And just because you've lost someone doesn't make it less offensive. You're comparing your first world problems to a crippling illness. I might be bigoted but you're a petty child in my eyes.

I stopped reading at the cancer reference. What a joke.

What the fuck did I just read? Growth hacker? Give me a break, it's called Viagra. "Mommy, he stole my dolly."

Second that. Was pretty annoying during my commute.

Awesome news. Still waiting for you guys to come to Canada so I can give you all my money!

All valid points. Perhaps I need to read/watch alternative media sources. I mostly don't hear about those issues for the most part. Any recommendations for factual/somewhat unbiased information?

Perhaps you're right. I feel like China has regressed quite a bit in that capacity though. I try and stay up to date on American politics and from what I can tell, there are some 'good intention' efforts towards fixing some of these issues.

Unfortunately, a lot of them seem misguided; in my opinion.

Agreed. I'm certainly not condoning that behaviour in any way. I'm merely speaking to the 'China v. America' debate. Just wanted to clarify that.

That strikes me as curious. While I'm certain there is a reasonable explanation, i.e., "This is a report on foreign governments.", it would make sense to include themselves. Why do you suppose that is?

Realistically, they won't. But ideally, they should. Wouldn't that be a lovely world? Damn Canadians and their happy thoughts... :)

Agreed. I'm not disputing that. I don't think America is actively trying to not 'fix itself'. I often wonder if some of its efforts are misguided, but I do believe there is a genuine effort. This is just China's way of saying, "You've got problems too, fix your house before pointing fingers."

I don't think that was their intention. I believe their goal was something along the lines of, "You can point out our flaws all you want, but you've got problems too." type of thing. Although, I think it was primarily just a propaganda piece for local citizens. None of this is to say that fingers shouldn't be pointed. Everyone has flaws, it's a question of whether those flaws are being addressed and worked on. I think I know which country of the two is making a genuine effort...

While I - as a Canadian - am not a HUGE fan of America(nothing personal, just spoiled in the great North), I find it more than a little hypocritical for China to be pointing the finger at anyone for these types of things. Which isn't to say that fingers shouldn't be pointed. But maybe countries should start pointing them at themselves first? Look inwards and fix your own problems.

Another sysadmin reporting in. OP doesn't have a clue.

I wish they'd list pricing in the event you grow beyond the free plan. Reluctant to even bother trying without knowing that type of information.

Why is something like this being posted? It's been in the docs for ages. Seems like link bait to all the folks drooling over Python lately(of which I am).