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For those of us running smaller companies, it might not be a management issue, it’s a budget issue. The company probably doesn’t have the budget to support a $
by jpeg_hero 9y ago
For those of us running smaller companies, it might not be a management issue, it’s a budget issue.
The company probably doesn’t have the budget to support a $billion uptime organization with proper “governance”
But I does sound like five 9’s is possible in your case.
Edit: just saw author is claiming “six 9’s” is impossible ... maybe
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- SlowBro 9y agoI am also running a side business with a tight budget. Governance is free, and nowadays multiple sites are cheap. Create an identical setup, use replication, strong change controls, and test failover. Monitor replication failures. If you do it on an AWS instance it costs little until needed. I believe CPU can be scaled up or down as needed? Just pay for storage. Also use solid versioning, tested backups, have a tested backout strategy with a secondary remediation path for all changes. Paranoia is cheap :-) Someone might say, “It’s more work.” And paging engineers at 3am isn’t work? Would you rather burn out your engineers or have them relaxed and focused on responding to a replication issue at 2pm? :-) You know what they say about an ounce of prevention.