I am so turned off when I click a "Pricing" link and get a contact form. Even more so when I read that, "our pricing team" [will get back to you].<p>So, you have an entire team of people who will try and maximize how much I pay? Sounds like a great experience doing business with you. /heavysarcasm
> As we are now several hours into this outage and do not have satisfactory timeline for resolution, we have begun the process of migrating our hosts into another deployment zone within GCE<p>Wait, what? Isn't running in multiple zones something like rule #1 or #3 in "how to run in the cloud"?<p>So why did they not already do this?
> <i>As we are now several hours into this outage and do not have satisfactory timeline for resolution, we have begun the process of migrating our hosts into another deployment zone within GCE. We will have a baseline set of services migrated within the hour and evaluate our ability to operate in a split deployment. Should we need to pursue a complete migration of hosts across zones then we would expect another 4-5 hours to return to full operational capacity.</i><p>Wait, their service isn't setup to operate in a split environment out of the box? I think it's time SaaS companies start documenting their IaaS setup so purchasers can do a high level audit before they decide to use it for potentially a core part of their own product/service.
It doesn't do any good to point the finger at your vendors when your service goes down; that data isn't useful for your customers. Never forget the lesson of <a href="http://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.whoownsmyavailability.com/</a>
Most concise summary of Layer I could find on the internet quickly.<p>> Layer is an amazingly elegant and light-weight solution for video communication. Layer is currently in a private beta primarily focused on Video, Voice and Chat on Android and iPhone. [1]<p>Comment was in 2014.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-PubNub-and-Layer" rel="nofollow">https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-PubNub-...</a>