Double banking holiday for May Day

Employers were advised to make salary payments early - paying tomorrow, Thu 30th April to avoid delays caused by the European and Irish bank holidays.
 
Aside from maintenance and upgrades there are other considerations too. There are some systems running full tilt 24/7 but generally they will have redundancy built in so that they can take individual machines offline for maintenance and upgrades. But that is really for systems that actually are accessible 24/7 and may have a global user base. Can you imagine if google went down at 1am for a regular update to a server? Closer to ordinary businesses, quite a lot of systems running 24/7 will have some form of batch work that needs to be factored in. Jobs that perhaps cannot safely be run during the day while users are in. Jobs that are resource intensive and need bandwidth, time or processing power to run. Jobs that are time dependent, dependent on third-party systems or dependent on the receipt of specific, discrete feeds. All of these tend to be run "overnight". The system may be running 24/7 but that doesn't mean it is doing the same thing for all those hours. And you also have to consider that there may be a manual operation involved too.
 
Not sure how serious you are but... The clue is in the name inter"net". It is a distributed network across a vast array of computers of all sizes, shapes, forms, operating systems and many different ages. Bits of it are down all the time just not all at the same time. Your machine is networked into it to!
 
roker said:
You never see the internet down for the week-end
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You're obviously not a big user of the Internet then! Otherwise you're bound to have come across sites that are down or unavailable at different times for overhauls.
 
roker said:
You never see the internet down for the week-end
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The bank systems are not "down" on May 1st, there is just no one at work in the European banks, it's a public holiday

Payment systems are far more then just computers working away merrily on their own. Jobs have to be monitored, alarms dealt with and there is always a significant financial reconciliation process to make sure everything is balanced and any exceptions/issues dealt with. All the staff doing this are off today

The real issue from an Irish perspective is that our bank holiday is on Monday the 4th this year and not May 1
 
Not so funny if you moved money from one account to another on Thursday and now have limited funds until Tuesday!
 
Jim2007 said:
You're obviously not a big user of the Internet then! Otherwise you're bound to have come across sites that are down or unavailable at different times for overhauls.
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I am a big internet user but never saw a system down for an entire week end, only a couple of hours
 
gipimann said:
Employers were advised to make salary payments early - paying tomorrow, Thu 30th April to avoid delays caused by the European and Irish bank holidays.
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Interestingly I sent wages to the bank last week as normal with Thursday pay dates - same as every other week. They didn't get into individual banks until the Friday, despite all the banks stating there would be absolutely no payments made on the Friday. The sepa system seems to be so unpredictable as to how it processes each of the banking holidays.
 
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