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Sure - but when AWS goes down, Amazon fixes it, even on the weekends. If you self-host, you need to pay a person to be on call to fix it.
by fwip 1y ago
Sure - but when AWS goes down, Amazon fixes it, even on the weekends. If you self-host, you need to pay a person to be on call to fix it.
- CursedSilicon 1y agoAWS doesn't have to pay people (LOTS OF PEOPLE) to keep things running over the weekends? And they aren't...just passing those costs on to their customers?
- fwip 1y agoThey are of course, but it's amortized over many users. If you're a small company, it's hard to hire one-tenth of an SRE.
- rypskar 1y agoNot only that. When your self-host goes down your customers complain that you are down. When AWS goes down your customers complain that internet is down
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- grim_io 1y agoNot every business needs that kind of uptime. How often is GitHub down? We are all just fine without it for a while.