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I’m going to be cheeky and call out one of your edited points as something I focused on from the start. As a bootstrapped SaaS owner myself, automating almost
by graystevens 8y ago
I’m going to be cheeky and call out one of your edited points as something I focused on from the start.
As a bootstrapped SaaS owner myself, automating almost everything has been key, giving me time to go and work on other things that simply aren’t easily automated (I’m looking at you sales).
Somethings I have automated:
- Onboarding should be hassle-free with very little interaction needed from myself, unless they are after something bespoke.
- Infrastructure is handled by Ansible, so I can easily (manually) scale up should I ever get a hug from HN. Also means I can rebuild from scratch relatively easily - just a few ansible commands.
- Silly things that are easily forgotten like LetsEncrypt renewals, backups etc.
I’m sure there are other things but they evade me currently.
- atmosx 8y agoRegarding DR, have you actually tried rebuilding your entire infrastructure? Do you do that regularly as you add more playbooks? If not, I'd say that your DR is more of a wishful-DR that real DR. Not bashing on you, it's just that we're all prone to believe that everything will work but most of the times it doesn't because <reasons>.