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by dx034 4y ago
You can purchase government debt via tax returns? How does that make sense? I've never heard of anything like that in other countries.
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by dx034 4y ago
Depends on the request. 34 million calls to a static page isn't much, even for the smallest VPS. 34 million requests to a data-heavy page with dynamically generated and hard to cache content can be a lot.
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by dx034 4y ago
Or you use Cloudflare Tunnel and don't open Ports 80/443 at all.
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by dx034 4y ago
But do you get a reminder if you don't take holiday? In most of Europe, companies don't only have to offer a minimum of 4-5 weeks PTO per year, they also have to make sure employees take at least the majority of their vacation day
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by dx034 4y ago
Can't really cover the UK, only offering 20 days PTO without explanation is illegal in the UK, the minimum is 28 days (not including bank holidays). And it's very restrictive compared to most European countries anyway. Seems crazy
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by dx034 4y ago
Which still means you could implement a hard limit of 1 fail per hour and only allow more replacements with manual intervention. With a thousand nodes, several or hundreds failing within a few hours is so unlikely that you're probably
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by dx034 4y ago
In the end it's just an arms race with basically no use cases. You could call it future proofing but the switches will have to be replaced before such speeds could realistically be used (8k/16k video or sth like that?) Having fibe
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by dx034 4y ago
Telekom is cancer, especially their peering. 250mbits sounds fine though, I haven't upgraded from that yet, there are way too few instances where it restricts me to pay anything more.
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by dx034 4y ago
1000/200mbit sounds more than enough to me, even for a family. I could have 1gbps but decided to stay with 250mbit because I just don't see how it would benefit me. Cloud vms are so cheap and tend to have lower ping to other servi
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by dx034 5y ago
A runner is super simple to set up and you once write a script and just deploy it a few times. Virtual network is also very easy to set up with most providers (even with dedicated servers), there's pretty much zero config. So far we di
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by dx034 5y ago
If that's your setup, we also just have Pet servers. Sounds pretty professional to me.
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by dx034 5y ago
I tried signing up without VPN and gave up after a few days. Credit card verification succeeded but it seems they need to manually upgrade your account. Support couldn't tell me how long that would take (system said 24h but took longer
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by dx034 5y ago
Worst case you just spin up a new instance, install and restore the backup. Won't take more than 1-2 hours (less if you have part of it automated).
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by dx034 5y ago
We don't have an overly complex setup, just some automations along the way to make things easier the long way. Sure, it's a bit more complicated than manually installing a server, but learning how to use terraform and automating p
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by dx034 5y ago
Wouldn't you extract data anyway to another system for analytics? Running analytics queries on production databases seems a bit risky in any setting?
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by dx034 5y ago
Any decent developer should be able to install and maintain on-prem Gitlab. It's not harder than running most managed services on AWS (I'd say it's simpler). So you already have the people, you just need a few minutes (litera
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by dx034 5y ago
I actually never encountered the problem with the crashing daemon, but we also have periodic restarts (they don't take too long and can be scheduled to happen at night). Upgrades aren't automated but as the server is only exposed
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by dx034 5y ago
Backups tend to take the most work, especially if you verify them periodically. But at least that means you have backups. I'm not sure I would want Gitlab to have all my data without a local copy for such important information.
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by dx034 5y ago
I'm not sure if it's a good thing if no software developer in a company has the skill to install and maintain an application on a linux server. To me that's no additional knowledge for a developer, but one of the basics they
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by dx034 5y ago
Don't you usually license based on server resources? Or do you know really have to pay per database/schema? At least on-prem licenses tend to be based on resource usage, not on the number of databases or schemas. I'm not talk
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by dx034 5y ago
If you have enough engineers to develop a product, you have enough to host your own Gitlab. Most engineers are expected to understand some ops anyway for CI/CD, setting up Gitlab really isn't harder than that (from experience). E
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by dx034 5y ago
Even with GDPR, you can easily keep that data around for a few months or a year unless the customer requests deletion.
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by dx034 5y ago
Not if the customer doesn't ask for it. As long as the user has a profile, was aware that PII is stored and doesn't request deletion, GDPR won't ever force you to delete information. Otherwise GMail would have to start deleti
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by dx034 5y ago
I still don't get why they didn't separate clients on a database level. Sure, put many clients on one database server to save resources. But why not use different databases? They cost nothing and provide perfect separation. It als
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by dx034 5y ago
I understand it differently. They said 7 hours ago it hadn't been fixed but afterwards they said the issue is resolved. I would understand that this means all issues have been resolved. Otherwise I don't get how they can close the
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by dx034 5y ago
And I don't get what infra burden there is. We run Gitlab, Mattermost, Databases etc and running/maintaining those is still just a very minor part in the work of some developers (who like and are good at infra). Put everything beh
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by dx034 5y ago
And here we are with our on prem Gitlab with CI/CD that hasn't been down for 2+ years (except for very short, planned maintenance) and has 100% predictable cost at much lower rates than cloud services. We can still scale within mi
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by dx034 5y ago
Does that exist? Can you determine how mcuch of a DALL-E picture is identical to copyrighted material? And what's the threshold anyway for copyright to apply? I'm not sure that's a process with set rules yet.
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by dx034 5y ago
That these were so scary shows the downside of usage-based fees. If you run on dedicated hardware, you always know what you'll have to pay, no matter how you utilize the system. The risk of surprise bills, even with the advantage of hi
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by dx034 5y ago
You'd still need to translate business requirements into exact requirements. For me, that's 90%+ of programming, and basically the job of a programmer. Technical details can already be abstracted away with libraries. My productivi

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