Re:"DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
by fastball on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:30AM
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I was responding to this comment:
> Sure, a backup would have been a significant improvement, but still – a backup only protects against data loss and not against downtime.
Assuming you have data backup / recovery good to go, the downtime issue needs to be solved by getting your actual web application / logic up and running again. With something like docker-compose, you can do this on practically any provider with a couple of commands. Frontend, backend, load-balancer -- you name it, all in one command.
> Containers solve the easy problem, which is how to make sure the dev environment matches the production environment. That is it.
> Sure, a backup would have been a significant improvement, but still – a backup only protects against data loss and not against downtime.
Assuming you have data backup / recovery good to go, the downtime issue needs to be solved by getting your actual web application / logic up and running again. With something like docker-compose, you can do this on practically any provider with a couple of commands. Frontend, backend, load-balancer -- you name it, all in one command.
> Containers solve the easy problem, which is how to make sure the dev environment matches the production environment. That is it.
Speaking of "patently false"...