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Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays by drchopchop on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:38PM (#25268254)
They don't get force-rebooted that often, I have EC2 instances that have been up for over 365 days with no issues.

Setting up instances, managing updates, adding IAM perms is orders of magnitude faster/easier than dealing with rack-and-stack data centers.

Full downtime isn't that frequent, either. The Kinesis outage on Wednesday didn't affect any of our USE1 functionality, with the exception of maybe Cloudfront propagation.

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Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays by mekster on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:17PM (#25270007)
I don't remember them force rebooting for nearly 10 years.

A server is easily surviving over 1000 days and it's usually our side that needs to reboot.

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Re:Self-Hosting Still Pays by sokoloff on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:41PM (#25271022)
I agree in general, though many were affected by the 2014 Xen security issue.
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