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It's worth worrying about outages, because these "cloud hosting" providers are a single point of failure for their hosted sites. Worrying about a complete shut
by jmillikin 14y ago
It's worth worrying about outages, because these "cloud hosting" providers are a single point of failure for their hosted sites.
Worrying about a complete shutdown is less reasonable. Sure, it's possible that a company might suddenly decide to shutter a profitable and massively popular service, but what are the chances? It's like worrying that Amazon will stop selling physical books.
- bitcartel 14y agoA platform provider doesn't have to shut down - it could just decide that your money is no longer welcome (for whatever reason).