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I like the power that we see with cheap commodity hardware, but we mustn't forget that it's crap. He talks about Litestream as a continuous backup but doesn't g

I like the power that we see with cheap commodity hardware, but we mustn't forget that it's crap. He talks about Litestream as a continuous backup but doesn't get into how long it takes to bring up a hot spare and whether he's automated that. I'm glad to see Litestream has synchronous replication on their roadmap, but in the meantime writes can be irretrievably lost and I don't know whether transaction boundaries are preserved.

bcaxis 3y ago
> I like the power that we see with cheap commodity hardware, but we mustn't forget that it's crap. Google grew up (early days) using cheap white box consumer PCs while "best practice" was expensive server boxes. It's a tried and true method of budget hosting. The mini PC world is exploding and they make for a solid low cost, low power server platform. It also makes having hot and cold spares cheap and easy.