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> In a business setting, you want your service to stay up, at the cost of spike in costs if accidents or mistakes happen. No you don’t. This is absolutely not
by kortilla 5y ago
> In a business setting, you want your service to stay up, at the cost of spike in costs if accidents or mistakes happen.
No you don’t. This is absolutely not a given. Being a “business” doesn’t mean you suddenly have unlimited budget.
The vast majority of businesses are not “web scale” and are better off taking an availability outage than suddenly handling 1,000,000x the normal volume of traffic.
- lytefm 5y agoI'd say that it definitely depends on the business. If you are selling you product via your web site and you're suddenly on TV with millions watching and accessing your site, you definitely don't want the server to go downand autoscaling + a bit higher cost would be great.
- Symbiote 5y agoOnly if you can actually fulfil those orders. If your production can't be increased, and the business is small, the cost could far outweigh the potential profit.
- kortilla 5y agoNot if you’re selling a real product. The only world where people can scale from 1000 orders a day to a million orders a day overnight is one where you’re not selling anything physical.