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It's amazing how many of these issues can be obviated by taking a step back at a given SAAS, asking can I self host this, then if you can and need redundancy to

by asdff 3y ago

It's amazing how many of these issues can be obviated by taking a step back at a given SAAS, asking can I self host this, then if you can and need redundancy to just buy two desktops and stick one in your place and another in your friends apartment in another town. With a lightweight static site, a modern desktop is probably more than powerful enough to deal with most any load you might realistically see for your given project. You are also extremely unlikely to have both of these desktops go down at once if they are on different local power grids and internet service providers, short of invasion of the continental U.S. perhaps.

pixl97 3y ago
So how do you keep data synced between them in a manner that ensures the data is safe? Now you're playing security sysadmin, and you're playing backup administrator, and your playing hardware admin (did you use 2 SSDs bought at the same time?). You don't ever escape the payment cost of the issues of keeping these systems running. You're paying staff to do it, you're paying a cloud provider to do this, or you're paying out of your own time.
- asdff 3y ago
  If these things were so insurmountable, the early internet would not have existed at all. Yet it did and still does in many corners, which stands to reason that you can do these things too.
  - pixl97 3y ago
    This is where I quote a Narina meme and say "Don't quote the old magic to me..." You're engaging in survivorship bias. One of my first 'social' media/forum accounts accounts was lost when the admin of the site dropped the user table from a database, and had to go back to everyone online and ask for people to mail in about their accounts. I never bothered to set it back up. Piles of other smaller sites disappeared for similar reasons. If you completely ignore all that, then yea the old internet was fine. Oh, and that these days hackers are highly motivated to encrypt all your crap for bitcoin. Typically big sites don't disappear because they depend on separation of duties between different teams doing their responsibilities. For example, knowing how backups work and making sure they are working every day.
  - reidjs 3y ago
    It’s not insurmountable, just there’s no point in adding that risk to most projects. Would you rather tell your boss so and so failed because of a news-worthy GitHub incident or so and so failed because all 3 backups of your own DIY service were taken down by some extremely unlikely (but not impossible) chain of events?

by asdff 3y ago

pixl97 3y ago

So how do you keep data synced between them in a manner that ensures the data is safe? Now you're playing security sysadmin, and you're playing backup administrator, and your playing hardware admin (did you use 2 SSDs bought at the same time?). You don't ever escape the payment cost of the issues of keeping these systems running. You're paying staff to do it, you're paying a cloud provider to do this, or you're paying out of your own time.

asdff 3y ago
If these things were so insurmountable, the early internet would not have existed at all. Yet it did and still does in many corners, which stands to reason that you can do these things too.
- pixl97 3y ago
  This is where I quote a Narina meme and say "Don't quote the old magic to me..." You're engaging in survivorship bias. One of my first 'social' media/forum accounts accounts was lost when the admin of the site dropped the user table from a database, and had to go back to everyone online and ask for people to mail in about their accounts. I never bothered to set it back up. Piles of other smaller sites disappeared for similar reasons. If you completely ignore all that, then yea the old internet was fine. Oh, and that these days hackers are highly motivated to encrypt all your crap for bitcoin. Typically big sites don't disappear because they depend on separation of duties between different teams doing their responsibilities. For example, knowing how backups work and making sure they are working every day.
- reidjs 3y ago
  It’s not insurmountable, just there’s no point in adding that risk to most projects. Would you rather tell your boss so and so failed because of a news-worthy GitHub incident or so and so failed because all 3 backups of your own DIY service were taken down by some extremely unlikely (but not impossible) chain of events?