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How frequently is that database backed up? How many hours of work are users going to lose? And you're going to wake up at 3:00am and take 2 hours to get a new
by wvenable 8y ago
How frequently is that database backed up? How many hours of work are users going to lose? And you're going to wake up at 3:00am and take 2 hours to get a new server online?
This is all fine for a service with a few thousand users that's not mission critical. But I assume the article is about building apps to be a real business not just a hobby.
I run a few hobby sites under the same scenario as you but all my work sites have multiple servers to fail over to and replicated databases.
- johnday 8y agoThat all sounds very reasonable. Ours is a news website which publishes semi-frequently; so we'd probably lose about 5-10 articles on average. It's not just a hobby - it brings in more than a minimum job's worth per month at the moment and is growing fairly quickly, since we operate in a growing niche. Like I said - it's all about your requirements, and for us $5/mo is just fine.