Re:"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
by williamdclt on Friday May 31, 2019 @06:05PM
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> How many horror stories need to reach the front page of HN before people stop believing this
Sounds like the opposite of the survivor bias. I don't believe it's any sort of common (though it does happen), even less that "it should be the first scenario in your disaster recovery plan"
Even if the stories we hear of account lockouts isn't typical, the absolute number of them that we see -- especially those (like this one) that appear to be locked (and re-locked) by automated processes -- should be cause for concern when setting up a new business on someone else's infrastructure.
How many horror stories need to reach the front page of HN before people stop believing this? Getting locked out of your cloud provider is a very common failure mode, with catastrophic effects if you haven't planned for it. To my mind, it should be the first scenario in your disaster recovery plan.
Dumping everything to B2 is trivially easy, trivially cheap and gives you substantial protection against total data loss. It also gives you a workable plan for scenarios that might cause a major outage like "we got cut off because of a billing snafu" or "the CTO lost his YubiKey".