Some people say, and many have heard, “never put all your eggs in one basket”.
If you understand that saying, then you should understand what I meant.
For those who don’t, I will try to explain both.
This expression generally refers to a “single-point-of-failure” with a very large impact scope.
[should something bad “happen” to that one basket, your may lose all your eggs]
The “not enough eggs nor baskets” was meant to infer that there is a very big “single-point-of-failure” in this design and attempted to analogize it with “having only one egg and only one basket”.
[The one DNS IP (being the single egg) and only one DNS provider (being the single basket)]
Given that:
When you only have one egg, it must go in only one basket (less you should break it!).
And that:
When you only have one basket, then all your eggs must go to that single basket.
Both of those cases are bad:
- Only one egg & only one basket
- More than one egg; But all in the same basket
But the first is clearly even worse than the second.
Where the second is already a well-known example of a very bad case scenario; as told and retold by many (“never put all your eggs in one basket”).
[where the second case could survive and overcome losing one egg, the first case would fail on any loss]
I saw this case just as that first one (with: just one egg and one basket).
And thus explains the footer message line: [not enough eggs nor baskets]
[more than two hundred words used to explain five words]
[and much like the comedian who has to “explain the joke”… this will (no doubt) fail to “get a laugh”]
[don’t ask me to explain any of that too - LOL]