Sadly there are two definitions of server floating around these days. There is the classical "box in the corner sending and receiving data over the network".

Sadly there are two definitions of server floating around these days. There is the classical "box in the corner sending and receiving data over the network". And then there is the new "bunch of software in a container in the cloud somewhere". And with the latter definition, stable and reliable seems to be of lesser importance in the eyes of the faithful. This because they can just fire off a new instance of the container if the existing one falls over (Uptime by machinegun as i like to think of it). http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/07/08/true-story-fixing-a-self-ddos/ http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/07/08/true-story-fixing-a...