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Right? My private website on my RPI is running now 2 Years without a problem and only minimal downtime due to rebooting for the new kernels. It is amazing how

by i5heu 5y ago

Right? My private website on my RPI is running now 2 Years without a problem and only minimal downtime due to rebooting for the new kernels. It is amazing how much uptime you can achieve with a 5$ Computer in comparison to a 1730000000000$ (1,73 tera $) Company. Even if you compensate for dynamic content.

exikyut 5y ago
(Google is currently processing multiple terabits of traffic per second using several billion dollars' worth of distributed infrastructure.)
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  And yet it doesn't mean his RPi-powered website needs to ever sustain that kind of traffic, so he doesn't have to take the additional risk of running a distributed system. In contrast, in the cloud you typically take on the risk of the underlying distributed platform (optimized for managing thousands of VMs, etc) even though you only need a single machine for yourself.
- iso1210 5y ago
  Actually it's not, and that's the problem
  - exikyut 5y ago
    FWIW I vaguely recall some kind of website that showed approximate bandwidth use... it was something like a cross between statcounter and alexa except for network stats and the like. I think it purported Google to be hovering around 15Gbps. That sounded humongously wrong, like I'd expect global traffic <-> Google to at least be a couple terabits, right? I'd be very curious if there's a way to actually ballpark the number. Or maybe it is in fact possible to implement services that reliably track this sort of thing, and my futile searches earlier just weren't finding them...
- i5heu 5y ago
  Yeah but google has also 27,169 software engineers.
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remram 5y ago
Maybe Google's servers are also running without a problem and you can't reach it for a different reason. Self-reported uptime is not a good measure of server availability. Was your home internet available all of the time? How many times did you reboot your modem?

by i5heu 5y ago

exikyut 5y ago

(Google is currently processing multiple terabits of traffic per second using several billion dollars' worth of distributed infrastructure.)

Nextgrid 5y ago
And yet it doesn't mean his RPi-powered website needs to ever sustain that kind of traffic, so he doesn't have to take the additional risk of running a distributed system. In contrast, in the cloud you typically take on the risk of the underlying distributed platform (optimized for managing thousands of VMs, etc) even though you only need a single machine for yourself.
iso1210 5y ago
Actually it's not, and that's the problem
- exikyut 5y ago
  FWIW I vaguely recall some kind of website that showed approximate bandwidth use... it was something like a cross between statcounter and alexa except for network stats and the like. I think it purported Google to be hovering around 15Gbps. That sounded humongously wrong, like I'd expect global traffic <-> Google to at least be a couple terabits, right? I'd be very curious if there's a way to actually ballpark the number. Or maybe it is in fact possible to implement services that reliably track this sort of thing, and my futile searches earlier just weren't finding them...
i5heu 5y ago
Yeah but google has also 27,169 software engineers.

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remram 5y ago

Maybe Google's servers are also running without a problem and you can't reach it for a different reason. Self-reported uptime is not a good measure of server availability. Was your home internet available all of the time? How many times did you reboot your modem?