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0 pointskxrm4y ago0 comments

I am not the guy you replied to, but I also self host my web apps. I think every project is different and not all projects demand near 100% uptime. I certainly strive for HA for my projects but at the appropriate budget and my users understand.

If you are trying to go commercial you might have a different attitude but for those of us who do this mostly for fun and for some donations on the side, over complicating our setups to ensure we add a 10th of a percent to our uptime stats just isn't worth it.

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warent4y ago

This is an important point. My customers don't love outages (who does?) but I've had them and it doesn't really hurt that badly. My products aren't that critical. They're understanding as long as you communicate.

exdsq4y ago

Plus they still happen on AWS (or other critical bits like GitHub) so you’re not immune anyway

deckard14y ago

github took down our eng dept probably half a dozen times last year. I don't even see how they hit 3 nines last year. It was insane. Even before that we had to switch off Azure. That was a sad joke of a service. They must be running their entire ops out of a log cabin connected with the bare minimum of cabling and bandwidth necessary.

That's also the thing the serverless/API-all-the-things/cloud promoters don't get. This interconnected web of services is incredibly fragile. It's to the point that every day is a new failure. One day github is down. Next day your CI process breaks because Docker shits the bed. Next day your E2E service is hosed. Following day you hit an API limit and need to go dump more money into the firepit. Everything is broken all the time.

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