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Re:Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com by illumin8 on Monday December 12, 2016 @09:03AM (#13158052)
The fact that you're asking this question on Hacker News leaves little doubt in my mind that you and your team are not prepared for this (running bare metal).

I read the entire article, and while you talked about having a backup system (in a single server, no less!) that can restore your dataset in a reasonable amount of time, you have no capability for disaster recovery. What happens when a plumbing leak in the datacenter causes water to dump into your server racks? How long did it take you to acquire servers, build the racks and get them ready for you to host customer data? Can your business withstand that amount of downtime (days, weeks, months?) and still operate?

These questions are the ones you need to be asking.

In other words, double your budget because you'll need a DR site in another datacenter.

Re:Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com by lykron on Monday December 12, 2016 @09:53AM (#13158412)
They don't need another datacenter. AWS has had more issues they NYI's datacenters have had in the past year. There are many companies that are based out of a single datacenter that haven't had any major issues.
Re:Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com by toomuchtodo on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:37AM (#13159360)
Backblaze comes to mind.