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Rent servers from a local provider. It's cheaper, you get more control over the hardware, but most of all, it avoids correlated failures.
by ruuda 1y ago
Rent servers from a local provider. It's cheaper, you get more control over the hardware, but most of all, it avoids correlated failures.
- cheeze 1y agoOn the flipside, then you have to maintain instances of everything. For most of what I run these days, I'd rather just have someone else run and administer my database. Same with my load balancers. And my Kubernetes cluster. I don't really care if there is an outage every 2 years.
- jimbokun 1y agoThat only helps if their uptime is better than AWS.