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> If you have an outage of your machine, the story is "<Your Company> services down". That is silly for two reasons: 1. Cloud doesn't save you from outages 2
by sph 2y ago
> If you have an outage of your machine, the story is "<Your Company> services down".
That is silly for two reasons:
1. Cloud doesn't save you from outages
2. Outages happen, and are usually very rare, whatever your host
That said, I have fewer outages on my machines than AWS has on theirs. I run a service for a client, on one server, that has had 100% uptime during workdays for 7 years.
- mrweasel 2y ago> That said, I have fewer outages on my machines than AWS has on theirs. It gets even better (or worse, depending on your view point) if you factor in services you're dependent on. In my career I probably had more outages due external partners running their stuff on AWS than I ever did because our own servers where down. That's not to say that AWS is bad, but it take a very skilled administrator to do AWS correct, and it costs a lot of money to get the required redundancy. The whole "I can't vacuum because US-EAST-1 is down" is because someone didn't want to pay what it costs to do redundancy in AWS.
- sshine 2y ago> someone didn't want to pay what it costs to do redundancy in AWS Seems a little pointless to pay a premium on everything else then.
- ghomem 2y agoTrue story ^^^^^ Add to this, that you can have outages due to operational complexity, which tends to happen in complex cloud native setups.
- mamcx 2y agoLoss of energy because the grid and internet are down are probably the major reasons for outages which means small companies don't want to host.
- caeril 2y agoWhat? UPS boards are cheap. LiFePO4 batteries are cheap. Metered ATS PDUs are cheap. I've had far less downtime (read: zero) from my custom power redundancy solutions on my homelab than from power issues with my colo provider. Small companies would be far better off with local power redundancy than some gargantuan complex industrial Liebert solution with a 4 hour SLA.