David Meier
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Thank goodness it happened at 3 a.m.
Eastern Time.
I don't know exactly how much traffic is flowing through there.
I remember in my backyard in Northern Virginia, 35% of the world's internet traffic used to flow through my backyard at peak times.
I'm not surprised.
But quite frankly, I'm impressed how quickly they recovered it.
And I'm surprised it doesn't happen more.
Maybe it does, and we just don't feel it.
The answer is yes, there is concern.
I don't know how much I should be concerned, though, because this is the direction that everything is going.
Many years ago, I was talking with some folks, and I'm like, when the internet came up, we are always going to be going more digital
not more analog.
AWS, Azure, Google computing platform, GCP, they all sprung up and they all provide these types of services.
I don't think we're going to a single point of failure.
There's not going to be one company that always does everything for everyone.
But we don't have nearly as many companies doing this as when the internet was first being created.
There aren't as many IP companies, things like that.
I don't know.
Like I said, it's one of those things where it's the cost of doing business.
If you're not going to own your own hardware and manage your own hardware, you're essentially paying for the risk of