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An outage at any one of five services will stop your thing from working, and it won't necessarily be obvious what happened. Now you need to monitor five service
by dsr_ 8y ago
An outage at any one of five services will stop your thing from working, and it won't necessarily be obvious what happened. Now you need to monitor five services, plus the one you actually built. Oh, and the free plans will stop being free once you cross a threshold of use, which is probably about when it becomes important to you.
If each of those services has an outage once a year, you'll get to feel all of them.
Compare to tt-rss: if your own web server and database are running (and there's an internet connection), it's working.
- cornholio 8y agoThose are enterprise services that offer at least four nines of availability each, probably more. AWS even advertises 11 nines for a select set of features. They should add up to a service that has an availability in the 99.98%. Meanwhile, obtaining anything over 99.9% is usually a challenge for the amateur. Even if you are on call on every day of the year, it's very easy to go to sleep with your phone muted and wake up the next morning to discover the service is down for whatever reason.