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Hi Garrett. I was at your presentation at Schnitzelconf last year -- if I remember correctly, that was just after you quit your day job to work on Sifter full t
by mhd 15y ago
Hi Garrett. I was at your presentation at Schnitzelconf last year -- if I remember correctly, that was just after you quit your day job to work on Sifter full time. Now one of your biggest concerns back then was availability – first your application's, and then yours, because of the former. You mentioned that you were quite concerned whenever you were away from a computer or even a mobile internet appliance.
You mentioned this concern in the slides, especially at the very end. What's your current situation in this regard, both from the personal (worry, sleep lost etc.) and the technical side (high availability, outsourced admin etc)? And what's your outlook on that for the near future?
This is one of the major benefits of having a "proper" startup, as you can share the load. For a bootstrapped single founder, it's a pretty big issue – or at least it appears to be one (most web apps don't really need five nines – unless it's your web app).
- garrettdimon 15y agoI generally worry a lot less these days. There are other people involved now as well, including a sys admin on retainer, and it's been a huge change. I'm probably more neurotic about it than most people, and definitely more neurotic than I needed to be. The reality is that Sifter almost never goes down, and when it does, it's usually something outside of our control and gets resolved fairly quickly by our host. Now that we're in a higher availability environment, that's helping a lot too. The outlook is pretty great now. It was definitely hard at the beginning, but most of that was self-imposed. Now that I recognize how rarely Sifter does go down or have performance issues, I know that I don't need to worry as much. It was a difficult lesson to learn though.