Firstly, as a free user you really shouldn't be asking for HA. (I m assuming their paid customer are kicking some butt as I speak .. or maybe not .. the site is back up :)).
However, as a business you really want to give ALL your customers HA. Its not just a reputation thing, its a "we love you all equally" kinda attitude.
As for MongoDB, we ve been using in production for small insignificant things. FWIW, they have replication http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replication and some cool new features like Replica Sets for failover and redundancy. Maybe they missed a trick?
I think the apology post was totally fair and he did categorically mention ".. This blog post is a bit technical. It has the details of what happened, and what we’re doing to make sure it doesn’t happen again in the future.". They could have dilly-dallied with words and said "we had a technical failure of a data nature" and that would have been just been plain stupid. So thanks for the detailed technical write up and hope there is more to follow.
However, as a business you really want to give ALL your customers HA. Its not just a reputation thing, its a "we love you all equally" kinda attitude.
As for MongoDB, we ve been using in production for small insignificant things. FWIW, they have replication http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replication and some cool new features like Replica Sets for failover and redundancy. Maybe they missed a trick?
I think the apology post was totally fair and he did categorically mention ".. This blog post is a bit technical. It has the details of what happened, and what we’re doing to make sure it doesn’t happen again in the future.". They could have dilly-dallied with words and said "we had a technical failure of a data nature" and that would have been just been plain stupid. So thanks for the detailed technical write up and hope there is more to follow.