Re:Ask HN: How do you make sure your servers are up as a sin...
by lettergram on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:26PM
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This covered most of my thoughts (also a solo founder). I also have a fallback server running that is an entire duplicate app running on my local machine (in house PC). When an error occurs it fails over to my local machine.
At fail-over my local machine will also switch from the dev database to prod (connecting to the RDS instance). It'll only has read-only access to relevant data, but it'll keep the site 90% functional.
Is it perfect? Hell no. Pretty hacky, but it's kept my application running twice after a failure in the past two years.
At fail-over my local machine will also switch from the dev database to prod (connecting to the RDS instance). It'll only has read-only access to relevant data, but it'll keep the site 90% functional.
Is it perfect? Hell no. Pretty hacky, but it's kept my application running twice after a failure in the past two years.