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Ah so make everything redundant. Double my costs in man hours and in monetary cost. Brilliant!
by warmwaffles 10y ago
Ah so make everything redundant. Double my costs in man hours and in monetary cost. Brilliant!
- corvus_sapiens 10y agoWhen your service literally says it exists to help provide uptime, redundancy makes sense.
- mancerayder 10y agoAh so make everything redundant. Double my costs in man hours and in monetary cost. Brilliant! The sarcasm is curious. It's a business decision. Either your revenue is high enough that the monetary loss from a several-hour intra-day outage is potentially worse than the cost of said redundancy, or you don't care enough to invest in that direction (it's expensive). Making things redundant is exactly a core piece of what infrastructure engineering is. I guess with the world of VPSes and cloud services, that aspect is being forgotten? And yes, redundancy / uptime costs money!
- dandandan 10y agoYour automation should be handling creating/modifying records in both providers. Also, if you're utilizing multiple providers you don't need to pay for 100% of your QPS (or whatever metric is used for billing) on every provider, only 50% for two or 33% for three. You can just pay for overages when you need to send a higher percentage of your traffic to a single provider.
- 464192002d7fe1c 10y agoA lot of providers do have 'fixed' portions of costs, so, it won't be quite 1/2 or 1/3rd. It may, at scale, be like 100% (one provider), 55%+55% (two) and 40%+40%+40% (three). Still eminently affordable.