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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by ElFitz on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:02AM (#19580639)
I've had servers with identical configurations, identical setup, identical programs installed the exact same way (via docker images), setup the same day

One worked, one didn't ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That's when I gave up on servers, virtual or not

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by fredsir on Friday April 05, 2019 @05:08AM (#19580904)
It stands to reason that they weren't identical because if they were they would both have worked.

The thing separating you (in this case) and Amazon/Google/* is that they make sure their processes produce predictable outcomes that if they were to fail can be shutdown and the process can be redone until it yields the correct outcome.

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by user5994461 on Friday April 05, 2019 @02:45PM (#19585749)
Unless they were identical running in the same directory and listening to the same port. First one to start won.
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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by fredsir on Saturday April 06, 2019 @07:11AM (#19590229)
That’s a whole different problem in a whole other place. It’s not either of them not working.
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