> Basically, rather than handling redundancy in software, they have a ton of hardware-level redundancy to get the high uptime #s. But at what cost? Instead of

> Basically, rather than handling redundancy in software, they have a ton of hardware-level redundancy to get the high uptime #s. But at what cost? Instead of getting suppliers to out-bid one another you are now stuck in a single supplier situation. [0] Building the redundancy in software allows you to run on commodity hardware that can be purchased from anyone. [0] https://www.gwern.net/Complement https://www.gwern.net/Complement