Qt Open-Source Downloads Temporarily Offline Due To Severe Hardware Failure

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Qt Open-Source Downloads Temporarily Offline Due To Severe Hardware Failure

Several readers have expressed concerned that Qt open-source downloads have disappeared but The Qt Company has now commented it's only a temporary issue due to a "severe hardware failure" in the cloud...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-Open-Source-Cloud-Failure

[cen1]

Correct me if I am wrong but "cloud" does not automatically mean seemless redundancy. Depends on the setup and what you pay for.

[edwaleni]

Isn't the "cloud" pushed because of its ability to stay available? Looks like it rained instead, on Qt.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Looks like regular dedicated server hosting to me, not cloud.

[M@GOid]

I that is why I rather spent the money buying more HDD than offloading my stuff to third parties.

But, I didn't have to distribute files to other people...

[bug77]

a disk failure at Qt's unnamed cloud provider caused both of their servers

LMAO!

[CochainComplex]

Karma?

[zxy_thf]

I that is why I rather spent the money buying more HDD than offloading my stuff to third parties.

But, I didn't have to distribute files to other people...

Self-hosting servers plus CDN should serve this purpose well.

[xorbe]

tiny cloud

[browseria]

Isn't the "cloud" pushed because of its ability to stay available? Looks like it rained instead, on Qt.

I think it's pushed mostly because it's easier to deal with than your own in-house infrastructure - the same way it was easier to buy a PC to do your work than have another meeting with the gatekeepers of the mainframe to try to get your job scheduled the way you needed it...