Re: [nznog] Xtra are broked

Lesson 2. An overnight outage once a year that doesn't make the papers probably doesn't justify the cost of geographic redundancy.

Do we get to hold you to the 'once a year' statement? Geographic Redundancy might have been as simple as an off-site secondary (or tertiary) DNS server.

Lesson 3. If you Internet breaks at 10pm on a Friday night and resetting the modem doesn't work and the helpdesk is busy then it's probably a good excuse to get a few beers.

That's fine, except there's plenty of operations that don't have regular 'beer o'clock' hours. Like those services offered to people in other timezones, for example; it was definately still business hours in Europe.