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Re:Etsy is under pressure to start acting more like a conven... by sametmax on Thursday May 18, 2017 @02:33PM (#14369800)
Here is the dirty little secret: most business run fine without high availibility. Your customer will not leave if your service is crashing for a few hours during the year if you are small.
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Re:Etsy is under pressure to start acting more like a conven... by sbov on Thursday May 18, 2017 @02:48PM (#14369916)
On top of that, Amazon's single region EC2 SLA kicks in at 99.95%. So unless you are using multiple regions in AWS, going by their SLA you're already in the range of a few hours of downtime per year.
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