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downtime is an issue no matter how much you pay your infrastructure provider. You should account for downtime in your application and your infra by taking advan
by kbar13 12y ago
downtime is an issue no matter how much you pay your infrastructure provider. You should account for downtime in your application and your infra by taking advantage of low-hanging high availability fruit.
Things like saltstack (saltstack.org) make this mega-easy.
- JohnTHaller 12y agoIt's easier for apps since you can build in failover support based on multiple servers pretty easily (I just implemented this in our 'live' installers recently on Windows). It's a bit harder at the website level for an average user, though. I know far too many people that have a single point of failure website on a super-cheap VPS that's just down whenever the VPS is down. Most of them would have no idea how to implement a load balancer and failover support. Though I could probably get them into something like CloudFare or similar.