The Design and Implementation of laffer1

This last week, Amazon's cloud services (AWS) went down in Virginia.  This is commonly known as US-EAST.  Many websites and cloud based services put all their eggs in one basket and got burned.  The whole point of cloud computing is to pay for distributed services.  In the US, this means US-EAST and US-WEST which is in California.  

If their website went down, it's because they were cheap or idiots.  There is no other explanation and it's not Amazon's fault.  

A company we consult for went down for the last few days due to this outage.  DEV and staging servers went out as a result.  It stopped all productivity because they didn't pay for a redundant mirror.  Don't be cheap people.