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> I wish every project was as basic as a web server and database but it's pretty rare these days. I feel like the overwhelming majority of web based software p
by skc 4y ago
> I wish every project was as basic as a web server and database but it's pretty rare these days.
I feel like the overwhelming majority of web based software projects can be catered for with exactly this setup.
If it's rare it's because everybody's drunk the Kool-aid
- threeseed 4y agoMaybe in the past, sure. But these days people rely far more on their web apps. Having a 1-2 day outage because your architecture is not highly-available across data centres like this one just doesn't cut it. And multi-day outages are very much real because of the thundering herd effect as companies rapidly try to move between data centres exhausting capacity. And much of the complexity in modern day architectures come from high availability and security.
- welterde 4y agoIt's already multi-datacenter, since the servers are distributed across multiple datacenters on the Falkenstein campus (and they also have other locations in their eco-system).
- nijave 4y agoThe post mentions he picked multiple Hetzner DCs to put his servers in
- threeseed 4y agoMultiple DCs in the same "park" equivalent to an availability zone. i.e. they would likely be sharing the same power and network infrastructure. So not redundant by any normal definition.
- therealdrag0 4y agoMajority by what metric? Solo projects? Enterprise? What? That’s an incredibly broad brush that doesn’t match my experience at all. Could it be you just haven’t been involved in many complicated projects?