Re: Why not "the cloud" ?
Interesting question which I presume because the internet is about routing data, it doesn't need to be aware of which data went where historically, which I assume the cloud must do in order to retrieve it later, a bit like RAID but involving network packets dynamically accessing storage as well as RAID techniques such as bit striping.
So if a section of the cloud goes down, I surmise there has to be a mechanism for piecing together replica data from servers that are unaffected by the outage, and promoting these to be the primary version. Not an easy choice to make automatically where latency can cause a positive feedback situation to cause instability.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
