Faith In Technology

[krashkart]

I just came back in from the SH5 forums, feeling a little sweaty. It's hot in there. After seeing the topics about Ubi's servers being down I wonder (yet again) about the future of online services - the games, applications, so on. All it really takes to muck up a perfectly good idea is a stiff bitchslapping of some kind. Be it DDoS, the servers blowing chunks, or what have you.

Given the recent failings of a particular DRM model *cough*, I wonder what solutions the Subsim community thinks would harden those kinds of services, and improve their reliability.

I believe, first of all, that aforementioned company deployed their scheme a tad early. Additionally, I feel that a redundant backup would have helped ease the pain.

Please note: This Is Not Intended To Be An SH5 Rant Thread - Please post SH5 rants in the SH5 forum

What, if anything, would keep those services up and running in a whirling sh!tstorm?