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Re:GCE vs. AWS: Why You Should Never Use Amazon by 0xmohit on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @05:58AM (#12042121)
I fail to understand such arguments.

Does that imply that every single webpage in the world needs to be behind a load balancer with unwarranted amounts of redundancy in place?

And if one doesn't do that, it's ok if the site is down.

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Re:GCE vs. AWS: Why You Should Never Use Amazon by PeterisP on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @08:22AM (#12042571)
Well, yes, that's exactly the point - a single site without redundancy does mean that you will get some hours of downtime every now and then; either it's ok if the site is down for such time, or extra redundancy is actually warranted.
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Re:GCE vs. AWS: Why You Should Never Use Amazon by josephmx on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @06:55AM (#12042277)
If redundancy is unwarranted, then the site can't possibly be mission critical?
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