Comments on: Surviving the credit crisis http://downtowncartel.com/surviving-the-credit-crisis/ Software Consulting and Development Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:13:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Andy Yates http://downtowncartel.com/surviving-the-credit-crisis/#comment-421 Andy Yates Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:59:07 +0000 http://downtowncartel.com/?p=108#comment-421 <p>The VOIP wholesaler where I worked did not survive. There were various reasons but ultimately the cause was a single point of failure. A great deal of money was invested in our network infrastructure to eliminate all single points of failure. In fact, even though our office was totally destroyed by hurricane Ike, we did not drop a single call.</p> <p>It was the financial storm that did us in. I do not know all the details, but it looked to me that the company was financed by a single person with a margin account based on a single stock. Even though our monthly burn rate was relatively small, there simply was nothing left after the market down turn. The company went down so fast there was not even enough left for our last pay checks. I do not believe this single point of failure was ever even considered. Ultimately it took us down the same as if we lost our primary edge router.</p> The VOIP wholesaler where I worked did not survive. There were various reasons but ultimately the cause was a single point of failure. A great deal of money was invested in our network infrastructure to eliminate all single points of failure. In fact, even though our office was totally destroyed by hurricane Ike, we did not drop a single call.

It was the financial storm that did us in. I do not know all the details, but it looked to me that the company was financed by a single person with a margin account based on a single stock. Even though our monthly burn rate was relatively small, there simply was nothing left after the market down turn. The company went down so fast there was not even enough left for our last pay checks. I do not believe this single point of failure was ever even considered. Ultimately it took us down the same as if we lost our primary edge router.

]]> By: Andy Yates http://downtowncartel.com/surviving-the-credit-crisis/#comment-420 Andy Yates Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:55:20 +0000 http://downtowncartel.com/?p=108#comment-420 <p>Google Apps: Get rid of the expense and never ending maintenance of Exchange. Let Google host your mail for free or if you need the extra features $50/user/year.</p> <p>Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): This seems to be a very economical way to deploy a web application without the upfront expense of hardware and co-location.</p> Google Apps: Get rid of the expense and never ending maintenance of Exchange. Let Google host your mail for free or if you need the extra features $50/user/year.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): This seems to be a very economical way to deploy a web application without the upfront expense of hardware and co-location.

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