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This is is scary. This is exactly how I run my (also monitoring) SaaS and it shows that the OP has learned how to minimize risk and prepare for the worst. You
by tnolet 7y ago
This is is scary.
This is exactly how I run my (also monitoring) SaaS and it shows that the OP has learned how to minimize risk and prepare for the worst.
You are married to your mobile & laptop.
I also shows there is no free lunch: you need to invest in redundancy.
- jmstfv 7y agoFrom time to time I ponder about all the terrible things that could happen: what can go wrong will probably go wrong so it helps to be (kinda) prepared.
- tnolet 7y agoYes, however you are extremely and acutely aware of this. Your business depends on it. This is not a long term solution though. You need to add people and take a break at some stage.
- o-__-o 7y agoAs a single owner (of also a monitoring SaaS) I am currently putting out a fire where my primary datacenter died. I have suffered data loss even with precautions I had in place, one server lost all filesystems which took out my git repos. I have backups, I have clones. I've still been in partial outage for 4 days and will be fully up tomorrow when I literally drive my servers to a new DC. Surprisingly I have slept 8 hours every night and I'm not worried. I've been in contact with my customers and provided solutions to keep them alive. If they leave they're going to leave, nothing I can do. I am looking to make sure everything is built uniformly (the server that died was the last of an old build process) and invest in scaling to the cloud in a bit more efficient and orderly manner.
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