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Thanks for the info very useful, I didn't realise how unreliable AWS is for database servers. You're correct random unannounced shutdowns of db servers is just

Thanks for the info very useful, I didn't realise how unreliable AWS is for database servers. You're correct random unannounced shutdowns of db servers is just not acceptable for critical data. I will be launching a new business based on Postgres soon and the thought of this is terrifying. I'm not keen on the RDS type services or CoLo so this is an unexpected problem I need to overcome. Do you know whether VPS provider such as Digital Ocean or CloudSigma would be more reliable?

slackingoff2017 9y ago
I would say colocation is most reliable. I'm sure dedicated VPS is better but most still reserve the right to pull the plug for hardware replacements. Colo isn't terribly expensive if you buy used equipment. Really consider how important 100% uptime is though. Google and S3 have gone down multiple times without killing the internet or losing a ton of customers. Plenty of large SaaS providers still use maintenance windows. Heck, GitHub went down today. Not sure if you use ADP but that goes down for a couple days a week! I know it's not the popular thing to do but you can get much better relative reliability by running a single database per tenant and running a limited number of tenants per VM.