I'm also doing a hybrid: GCP (3 nodes; euro, iowa, asia), IONOS as backup in central US, AWS as backup in asia. Then I have two home 1Gb fibers (when my summer

I'm also doing a hybrid: GCP (3 nodes; euro, iowa, asia), IONOS as backup in central US, AWS as backup in asia. Then I have two home 1Gb fibers (when my summer house gets fiber this summer hopefully). I wrote my own distributed database so all data is everywhere at all times = no extra work. (after the initial 3 years of making it robust :D) I would say go for the opposite of "use as much standard as possible" and make everything yourself, from scratch (except OS and language); that way you can slowly but surely make it perfect = 100% read uptime even if one home fiber blows up. People that describe this as meaningless don't understand what responsibility is! Own (as in nobody can take something away), understand and change; in that order, on repeat, forever... (until you die and your children pick up the slack because you thought them what responsability is)... People will learn to respect responsability when it's too late.