CenturyLink provides me gigabit internet on a business connection. I get traffic spikes of ~100/rps and it's no problem. Could probably easily handle another or

CenturyLink provides me gigabit internet on a business connection. I get traffic spikes of ~100/rps and it's no problem. Could probably easily handle another order of magnitude or two. Local blackouts are mitigated with a UPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply To be fair, I'm not 100% off the cloud. Backups are on an hourly snapshot thru Restic https://restic.net/ https://restic.net/ and stored in Google Cloud Storage off-prem in case of catastrophes. Also, my Postgres database is hosted in Cloud SQL because frankly I'm not feeling experienced enough to try hosting a database myself right now. It's really not as unrealistic as most people seem to think. People have been building online businesses for years without the cloud. Believing it's suddenly not possible is just their marketing going to work for them making them new customers imo.