FYI Netflix is down

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Steve at pirk,

I fail to grasp the concept in your argument.

You do realise, do you not, that your $$$$$ black boxes from your favourite brand name vendor have software running inside of them do you not ?

Case in point for example, the recent LINX issues.... it wasn't the hardware that gave them the headaches, but the software running on it sure did !

>I am a big believer in using hardware to load balance data centers, and not
>leave it up to software in the data center which might fail.?