Temporary Suspension of the Services Due to an Earthquake

[IT_76]

With all of the flaming and sympathy going on, I believe there are some things being overlooked. SE is a multi-million dollar corporation. The company I work for is also. SE is down. My company is not. My company is based in Hong Kong. While I understand that Hong Kong isn't in Japan, that certainly isn't the point. The point is that a global company that relies 100% on its servers for revenue should have backups in other countries. For most educated IT leaders, that's just 'common sense'. I think SE just realized that perhaps the costs involved with disaster recovery might be worth it, and they currently look like amateurs. They haven't updated anyone on the current status. Their main site still says it's down for maintenance. The Playonline portion of the application still tries to connect without any appropriate feedback about the earthquake. If we measured their company by the rule of nines, I wonder where they would fall this year? Is there any idea on when it's going to come back up?? They said a week and it's been longer, but I guess looking as if they have an idea of what's going on would be too much to ask?

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With that said, I do feel bad about natural disasters happening. It's a horrible thing.