gpoul's Out Of Memory Blog

It’s not unheard of to have servers that can’t withstand an unexpected surge in load. Every system will break at some point. It’s just a matter of the capacity you plan for or additional capacity available that you’re able to reallocate automatically to handle the load.

I would’ve thought that this might have been a great way to show and use Windows Azure, the cloud computing initiative Microsoft is working on. This kind of thing was funny when Microsoft was a software company that was a little challenged on the IT management side of things, but when you’re starting to host people’s e-mail and try to get into hosting business applications for your customers it gets a bit more serious. I guess someone at Microsoft – in addition to the admins – might lose some sleep over this.