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From the blog posts: > Main values: Simple is good. Efficient is good. Less is more. > The core infrastructure runs on Hetzner bare metal machines. Hetzner of
by rvnx 2y ago
From the blog posts:
> Main values: Simple is good. Efficient is good. Less is more.
> The core infrastructure runs on Hetzner bare metal machines. Hetzner offers amazing value for money and is a big part of the reason why Healthchecks.io can offer its current pricing.
> No containers, no auto-scaling, no “serverless”. Plain old servers, each dedicated to a single role: “load balancer”, “application server” and “database server”.
> The machines are closer to “pets” than “cattle”: I have provisioning scripts to set up new ones relatively quickly, but in practice the working set of machines changes rarely. For example, the primary database server currently has an uptime of 375 days.
- killingtime74 2y agoFurther here (https://blog.healthchecks.io/2022/02/healthchecks-io-hosting-setup-2022-edition/ https://blog.healthchecks.io/2022/02/healthchecks-io-hosting...) it says no auto fail over.
- rco8786 2y agoSo much nostalgia reading that. I wish we could go back
- sgarland 2y agoNothing is stopping you. Reject modernity, embrace stability.
- aprdm 2y agofwiw that's what most of the big companies do on their product that actually make money. All the "kubernetes revolution" is pretty new, as are contianers, and companies move very slowly. The core products only move if they really see an advantage
- forgetfreeman 2y agoOh, we will. This is just another swing of the fat-vs-thin client pendulum.
- Toutouxc 2y agoThere are tens of thousands of companies who continue to work that way. You don't hear about them often, because there's nothing to write about.