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"Your app will go down when half the Internet goes down" is not that big of a deal to most software companies, because: 1. no one's going to blame me if my app
by TheCoelacanth 6y ago
"Your app will go down when half the Internet goes down" is not that big of a deal to most software companies, because:
1. no one's going to blame me if my app goes down when half the Internet is also down but they are going to blame me if my custom solution to the same thing causes an outage,
2. there's no way my custom solution is going to achieve the same uptime. AWS/Cloudflare/Azure are not perfect, but whatever I roll for myself is almost certainly going to be much less perfect.
- Semaphor 6y agoRegarding 2, that’s exactly what the blog post was advocating for: Redundancy. They weren’t saying give up on Cloudflare (as they mentioned, they use it themselves).
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- Sephiroth87 6y agoThey do blame you though, most people won't be aware of the real issue, when cloudflare went down, the trending things on twitter were #spotifydown and #applemusic
- mercer 6y agoI suspect customers complaining on Twitter are not the ones cared about to whoever decides to use Cloudflare.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoI build an app. I use CF for my app. Customers use my app. CF has an outage. Customers don't care why I'm down, they care that my app isn't working.
- when_it-rains 6y agoWhat is your solution for never going down?