It's a good reminder anyway. There are lots of people involved with tech who genuinely don't seem to understand that things fail, even in "the cloud". As for p

It's a good reminder anyway. There are lots of people involved with tech who genuinely don't seem to understand that things fail, even in "the cloud". As for pet servers in the cloud, not having them is the ideal, but it's not nearly always realistic. It's not "wrong" to run a pet server in the cloud if it's the only reasonable option you have given all other constraints involved. A real failure-resistant system is often expensive, and sometimes simply not worth the investment.