> if you blow an on-prem switch with no configuration backup or a database server hard crashes while syncing its backup, you might be down days. Switches are e

> if you blow an on-prem switch with no configuration backup or a database server hard crashes while syncing its backup, you might be down days. Switches are easy and cheap to put in a fail-over config. DB's are also running atleast in a primary / standby config everywhere. Besides if your running a single DB instance in a cloud VM the same thing can happen. And don't get me started on the trouble you can get in with for example GCP SaaS PostgreSQL...