A Spirited Dirty Dozen ...

[englanddg]

Its simple. Most internet providers that deliver direct lines to your business, have a ratting and promised uptime percentage.
So if the line is down and your business is affected. They have to reimburse you or in someway compensate for the lack of service.
Some lines are incredible expensive (like those multifiber node lines of 300+Mbps, that cost a few hundred of thousands per month). So paying that and getting hit by heavy outages is a big no no.

This is of course is very different from your usual consumer internet. Which doesn't promise you anything. All they have a "max" speeds(not constants), also dont promise full speeds all the time or high reliability levels.

It's called an SLA (Service Level Agreement). It's standard practice for dedicated line services.

The issue is...the SLA merely outlines your recourse, as a business, if there is an outage. It doesn't stop outages, and certainly doesn't provide redundancy.

 

[Mike S]

Had a tough week and someone made the suggestion so I decided, "why not?"

Spontaneity.

 

[gmajew]

Had a tough week and someone made the suggestion so I decided, "why not?"
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Spontaneity.

Have a blast. Lucky! I have a tough week and I am stuck in the rain and fall of Chicago.

 

[Mike S]

Oh I saw someone post a regular "Disney Parks" with the Halloween design the other day

I just saw someone with a "Walt Disney World" branded cup for anyone curious.

Also I never knew there were cats in Magic Kingdom. I only heard about Disneyland.

 

[Donaldfan1934]

I actually don't think there is a problem with revisiting previous movies -- Hollywood has been doing that forever really and popular concept constantly get recycled. Not that every story needs to be retold, but it's okay for a fresh take on an older story.

Personally, I have a bigger problem that these live action remakes are virtually the only live action films Disney is pursuing. They should be a smaller number overall (i.e. be selective with what gets made) and part of a variety of different films for the studio.

But the problem is that remakes are attempts at replacement media for a new generation. With a number of exceptions, most remakes come from movies that can't and shouldn't be replaced. Disney movies have been passed down for generations, not tossed to the side once a new version comes along.

 

[Rteetz]

George says we have more to announce between now and out 2021 golden anniversary...

 

[Donaldfan1934]

George says we have more to announce between now and out 2021 golden anniversary...

Hard to believe its been 5 years since the 40th. Partially because it just doesn't feel like that many years have passed, but also because the 45th anniversary "celebrations" are nearly identical sans replacing Meg Crofton with George K. Its the same bush league celebration on the castle stage. I know the 45th isn't a real milestone so this a small ceremony like this is nice and serviceable, but it's been way too long since we've seen any real anniversary treatment.

 

[ford91exploder]

Had a tough week and someone made the suggestion so I decided, "why not?"
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Spontaneity.

Really nice picture - I'm glad Disney chose to put up a banner! - Have a great day at the parks

 

[The_Jobu]

Hard to believe its been 5 years since the 40th. Partially because it just doesn't feel that that many years have passed, but also because the 45th anniversary "celebrations" are nearly identical sans replacing Meg Crofton with George K. Its the same bush league celebration on the castle stage. I know the 45th isn't a real milestone so this a small ceremony like this is nice and serviceable, but it's been way too long since we've seen any real anniversary treatment.

It's nice they're at least doing something. I went for the 25th anniversary and got a nice picture frame souvenir. I was hoping to get a matching one at Universal for their 25th, but when I went I couldn't see a single piece of 25th merch. I asked a CM and they said all they had were some pins but those were only available to pass holders or some such.

 

[ford91exploder]

It's a requirement for certification (redundant power), among other things. Getting into a Tier IV (step lower that the top tier Datacenters) isn't that expensive. Certainly well within Disney's budgeting.

That said, there is no reason why their facing sites couldn't, or shouldn't, be on a distributed cloud. None. Even if they wanted to do it, leasing a colo of a few racks in datacenters around the country with remote hands services isn't that expensive...then run the systems on at least an A/B toggle failover or something...

I just don't get it.

I do, It's all about the Benjamins. Disney thinks they are SAVING money with their cut rate IT services, They are not considering the opportunity cost when one of those 'Wall St Dads' goes to book and the site blows up, Guess what He's not going to try to rebook after waiting hours or days for the site to come back. No he's going to Jackson Hole or some other place where the services work 99.999% of the time. This year I don't think Disney even has 99% uptime on it's web presence.

For the mathematically lazy - and for my 'fans' this IS from Wikipedia

For the curious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability

 

[Donaldfan1934]

It's nice they're at least doing something. I went for the 25th anniversary and got a nice picture frame souvenir. I was hoping to get a matching one at Universal for their 25th, but when I went I couldn't see a single piece of 25th merch. I asked a CM and they said all they had were some pins but those were only available to pass holders or some such.

I totally agree. I'm surprised to hear Universal had nothing at all considering they put the 25th anniversary logo in their ads.

 

[ford91exploder]

I just saw someone with a "Walt Disney World" branded cup for anyone curious.

Also I never knew there were cats in Magic Kingdom. I only heard about Disneyland.
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The cat colonies are one of the best kept secrets of DL and WDW

http://lovecatsworld.com/the-feral-cats-of-the-magic-kingdom/

This article describes DL but WDW has it's own cat colonies in each of the parks.

 

[GoofGoof]

I just saw someone with a "Walt Disney World" branded cup for anyone curious.

Also I never knew there were cats in Magic Kingdom. I only heard about Disneyland.
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You never had issues with cats until they killed all the gators

Is it too soon for gator jokes?

 

[njDizFan]

The cat colonies are one of the best kept secrets of DL and WDW

http://lovecatsworld.com/the-feral-cats-of-the-magic-kingdom/

This article describes DL but WDW has it's own cat colonies in each of the parks.

That's interesting, I just wonder how they get them all back into their day beds before the gates open in the morning. And are they used at the other parks?

 

[TP2000]

George says we have more to announce between now and out 2021 golden anniversary...

Thank you for posting that, it was a nice way to have my morning coffee out here in California. I like how George mentioned he started as a busboy in '71, that gives him some heart.

But the rest of that canned, overly corporate ceremony? Yikes. And I had to turn down the sound when that male Ambassador spoke.

 

[truecoat]

Any insiders know why the Super Hero HQ can now use the Marvel name? Must have been a change of some sort.

So there was continued speculation that they couldn't use the name Marvel anywhere at Disney, just the characters. Hence the reason the shop on West Side was just called Super Hero Headquarters. Well it appears that wasn't accurate or something changed contractually because the shop now sports the Marvel logo!
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[doctornick]

Any insiders know why the Super Hero HQ can now use the Marvel name? Must have been a change of some sort.

It never made sense to me that a store (not in a theme park) would not be able to use the name "Marvel". My guess is that there was discussions and this issue was "clarified" rather than Disney bought the rights or such. We know there has been some sort of talks between the companies and they probably cleared up some areas of dispute.

 

[PhotoDave219]

It's a requirement for certification (redundant power), among other things. Getting into a Tier IV (step lower that the top tier Datacenters) isn't that expensive. Certainly well within Disney's budgeting.

That said, there is no reason why their facing sites couldn't, or shouldn't, be on a distributed cloud. None. Even if they wanted to do it, leasing a colo of a few racks in datacenters around the country with remote hands services isn't that expensive...then run the systems on at least an A/B toggle failover or something...

I just don't get it.

Amazon is wanting to put a datacenter near me. We're having a fight with Dominion Power about where they're going to put the power lines. They tried to sneak it in. Didnt work.

 

[Cesar R M]

It's a requirement for certification (redundant power), among other things. Getting into a Tier IV (step lower that the top tier Datacenters) isn't that expensive. Certainly well within Disney's budgeting.

That said, there is no reason why their facing sites couldn't, or shouldn't, be on a distributed cloud. None. Even if they wanted to do it, leasing a colo of a few racks in datacenters around the country with remote hands services isn't that expensive...then run the systems on at least an A/B toggle failover or something...

I just don't get it.

cost cuts.. bonuses to executives..etc..

 

[Cesar R M]

DCL goes down too. I noted a 2 day outage a few months ago where the site was up, but the booking engines were down (went to Snow White or Stitch).

Interesting! I honestly havent experienced an outage on DLC's site. But yeah, I've seen the classic "Error" page (with angry sailor donald) a few times.