Apparently everyone in south korea uses one internet company for everything in their life and they had a fire in one building. Literally the entire nation suffered from one single-point failure LMAO

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[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

"Google"

[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

yes. This is something like the equivalent of all of AWS and all google services going offline simultaneously. Society would come to a halt!

. . . except this was one building, probably one room and one server rack if not one server. Not a hundred datacenters on a thousand servers.

[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Luckily, our cloud services that damn near everything relies on, are split between two big companies and one or two smaller, which everything relies on. We've seen Amazon cloud take out huge swaths of the Internet, Google too, Cloudflair and Microsoft too. Microsoft may not have the biggest cloud/web impact, but the US sure has a serious addiction to that company for most office requirements. They seem to be slowing working towards subscription based operating systems and office applications, which will be more prone to centralized failure.

[–]mifu 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Korea has extremely fast Internet service, one of the fastest in the world. I fail to see anything humorous about the fire.

[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Fires can be fun. This one exposed a single-point failure in a critical system that should not have existed. The entire company is hoist by its petard, which is inherently funny.