Category: Cloud

Communicating Outages Out of Band

Communicating Outages Out of Band

Over the weekend (on 3/1 to be exact), there was a significant outage at Microsoft impacting primarily Exchange Online but also some other services. Even though this outage was relatively short, many MSPs reported receiving lots of emergency calls, texts, tickets,...

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Let’s Talk About the Cloudflare Outage

Let’s Talk About the Cloudflare Outage

Over the last couple of days, Cloudflare suffered a significant outage across its control plane and analytics environments. First things first: no, I'm not leaving Cloudflare over this. I've been a Cloudflare user for a long time, since the early days. Back when 12-...

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What if my cloud provider dies?

What if my cloud provider dies?

This weekend has been marred by an ongoing outage at major cloud provider Rackspace that is impacting their entire Hosted Exchange offering. After a full day of being down with lackluster (to say the least) communications, Rackspace came out and admitted that they've...

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