Please, see the linked thread on the community for official communication.

Feel free to rant and vent in this lemmy-thread, but don’t speculate or “give good advice” to the operations-team; they know what they are doing.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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    3 days ago

    We have dual redundant links via separate physical hardware from our side to our Tier 1 ISP. We unexpectedly discovered their equipment is a single point failure.

    Our Tier 1 ISP has just confirmed hardware failure of the upstream router (after 16 hours!) and will provision new replacement device once it has been shipped to site.

    I wonder why the OSM team isn’t calling the ISP out by name. Not having on-site spares at a Tier 1 is just, insane.

    • pietervdvn@lemmy.mlOPM
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      1 day ago

      I wonder why the OSM team isn’t calling the ISP out by name.

      Because this would open up OSM for defamation (and hinders a commercial resolve). It doesn’t solve anything right now.

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      3 days ago

      Amazingly, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard of this happening.

      Charging for a redundant line, then discovering that it actually wasn’t one day when it goes down.

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        2 days ago

        “We paid for a redundant line but it wasn’t redundant!”

        ‘Sure it was. They just went to the same router.’

        Can you imagine the straight face that tech must have had to keep?