They move to Gibraltar the week b4 cheltenham

cost cutting presumably

Who said they MOVED a single piece of equipment?

they daid they did

No, they didn't, they said they'd now be operating under a Gibraltar LICENSE for customers based in the UK, not the same thing.

"the group has moved key technical equipment and 120 staff to new offices in Gibraltar and Dublin. "

As statement

My understanding (maybe wrong on this) was that when they had the site down for a period during the 'upgrade' a while back that was moving to a new data centre, and I think that might have been in Dublin. That would tie in with what you say, but there was no upgrade last week or any downtime, which there certainly would be if they'd moved all their servers, and they'd be mad to move to two data centres in the space of a month!

I think you will find that key equipment for bet acceptance is now in Gibraltar.

But whatver the situation, I thought they would have learnt from past occassions that moving key equipment before a major event was a no no.

Site down again

Well as far as I've read the new data centre was in Dublin. If they've moved their stuff around such that they've key parts distributed all over the world that have to ALL be speaking to each other or it dies (the opposite of redundancy) that would be inefficient, make no sense, and they'd be asking for trouble.

Its called Tax dogging

they say theyve just moved the server to ireland this week

In which case perhaps  the Title should read "They Move to Ireland the week b4 Cheltenham" 

- Why?

That figures. There is a company in a similar line of business in Ireland I seem to recall.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-city-diary-so-taxing-betfair-finally-moves-offshore-2240330.html

In recent months, Betfair has undergone a period of significant restructuring and has now transferred the majority of the key systems for its betting exchange from the UK to Gibraltar and Dublin," the group said. "The company has also opened new offices in both Gibraltar and Dublin, together employing over 120 people".

That's not quite how Ed Wray, the betting group's chairman, explained it in July, when I put it to him that Betfair was planning to leg it offshore.

"That's news to me. It's just not true," Wray replied at the time. "If it is going on, I don't know about it."

I found this on the other forum.  It probably explains a lot.  It was posted the day before Saturday, which is slightly comical.

But thanks to "An unusually helpful spokeswoman at Betfair" we have this :-




Betfair promises problems are behind it

By John Oates • www.the register.co.uk

Posted in Cloud, 11th March 2011 15:39 GMT



Betfair suffered a brief outage this morning – one of several glitches the site has suffered in recent weeks.

The problems at the betting exchange have alarmed customers, who could get stuck with an open position which they cannot close.

An unusually helpful spokeswoman at Betfair explained the problems were related to moving the site's data centres to Ireland earlier in the year.

She said: "Because Betfair works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, we can't just put updates on at night. And because of the move to Dublin we had to put a freeze on upgrades to the site.

"We did anticipate some wrinkles as we dealt with the backlog of improvements after the move. We've had about 30 releases to push through – a really intense period of activity – and a short window to get them done before spring racing starts."

She said no one had felt the problems as keenly as Betfair staff but that the betting exchange had picked its moment as best it could.

The problems at the betting exchange have alarmed customers, who could get stuck with an open position which they cannot close.

"It's like premature burial" cried one client as the ambulance men lifted him on to the stretcher.