Next Firmware Update on the ALP will be on 6/5/14

[beingaware]

No pissing match going on here. I'm sure this is a very affordable setup for a company that sells a handful of laser jammers to enthusiasts that they work on. This may shock you but not everyone working on LIDAR jamming is a cloud/virtualization/web guru or decides that it's worth their money to hire one.

I do agree with you that they should have done a better job at keeping their site up. But we still have no clue what exactly broke in their setup, so this is all speculation.

jdong,
Software/firmware/kernel engineer who spends all day working with people who are not software inclined but think that they are, whose EE and mathematics intellect fly way over my head so I can't claim I can do their job either....

Haha, you must work with engineers .

And AL is pretty large in Europe and over here in Australia, I am sure they could afford the configuration.
If some of my SMB clients can, I am sure AL can.

[jdong]

Haha, you must work with engineers .

And AL is pretty large in Europe and over here in Australia, I am sure they could afford the configuration.
If some of my SMB clients can, I am sure AL can.

I am indeed. And an engineer who does some infrastructure stuff in his spare time, who knows all and well that it's not my strong suit and I'd never trust something I'm put in charge of maintaining. But it seems like more and more businesses "trying out" the whole web infrastructure thing see that their (other types of) engineers are able to seemingly produce a functioning web server. They just declare "mission accomplished" there, and engineers gravitate back to doing their own favorite form of engineering and the infrastructure suffers until something goes horribly wrong.

Oh well, I think I'm preaching to the choir now. People like you let people like me get along with our day to day work

[beingaware]

I am indeed. And an engineer who does some infrastructure stuff in his spare time, who knows all and well that it's not my strong suit and I'd never trust something I'm put in charge of maintaining. But it seems like more and more businesses "trying out" the whole web infrastructure thing see that their (other types of) engineers are able to seemingly produce a functioning web server. They just declare "mission accomplished" there, and engineers gravitate back to doing their own favorite form of engineering and the infrastructure suffers until something goes horribly wrong.

Oh well, I think I'm preaching to the choir now. People like you let people like me get along with our day to day work

Indeed, I have 5 developers in my team who cry anything skips a beat haha.
The company I work for does a mostly HA network deployments along with 2 factor auth/proper security implementations etc for SMB, and gov (mostly airlines, mining, and gov).
I was given my own budget to go nuts with out own Internal network and our own MPLS for our customers, so I did. .

Since the new system went in place, we have had not one outage .
Hardware has failed/servers have had hiccups, but the end users are none the wiser...