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What happens when one of these mini-cloud providers like DO, Linode, and Vultr folds? What are the consequences as a customer? Does all your data just evapora
by reedwolf 7y ago
What happens when one of these mini-cloud providers like DO, Linode, and Vultr folds?
What are the consequences as a customer?
Does all your data just evaporate into the aether?
- drewnick 7y agoYes, which is why no matter who your provider is, you should have an off-site backup.
- paulddraper 7y agoI assume you download your data.
- stevekemp 7y agoIf they literally turn out the lights then yes. Typically what happens in the low-end hosting world is that smaller providers get bought out by larger ones, (though large in this sense might mean a 4-person company with 200-1000 virtual machines gets acquired by a company 2-5 times larger). At that point you'll probably have your stuff running and you'll be "invited" to migrate. But in short you should always assume your stuff is going to disappear; take (offsite) backups, have (offsite) monitoring, and design applications to cope with rebalancing/relocation/redeployments easily.