> So you don't mind it if the OpenSRS system crashes at midnight on Friday
> and it doesn't get fixed until someone comes in to work Monday morning,
> so you lose all of your business for 48 hours to another registrar whose
> system is up and running? This has happened before... not for a whole
> weekend, but for at least 12 hours.
>
> Also, from some of the other posts I have read, many people seem to think
> that the ones who work on the weekend *or* overnite (remember there is
> currently no support overnite either) are also the same ones who work
> during the day on the weekdays. I'm not sure where this thinking comes
> from but the way this works in business is your hire different people to
> work the different shifts.
Absolutely. I was disappointed to see some of the reactions in this thread,
assuming that the suggestion was a complaint about the current level of
service. It has to be said that the service has so far (with few exceptions)
been excellent.
This does not, however, rule out the possibility of a major problem
occurring sometime in the future as Bill's suggesting. Nor does it rule out
someone on the other side of the world needing support 'now now' - while the
US is asleep or having a jolly weekend...
Shift systems are not a new idea - in fact I preferred working shifts to the
way I work now - we used to work a system of 3 12 hour days, followed by 3
12 hour nights, followed by 6 days off which calculates out at the
'standard' 40 hour week... this could be achieved in the case of OpenSRS by
only two people, and there would be someone to handle problems 24/7. The
bigger OpenSRS gets, of course, the more people they need on each shift -
but it all scales up in terms of the economics of the thing.
Regards
Bob
