Re:Slack is down
by erikbye on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:24AM
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> it's not perfect, but I really honestly don't think I could match their uptime by self-hosting
This is such a common misconception. The services I self-host was configured by me, if anything goes down (which they very rarely do), I know the exact cause and have it fixed in minutes. When some company's cloud service goes down I'm completely at their mercy. I also spend very little time on maintaining these services, just security updates, which are mostly automated.
Bottom line, maintaining and self-hosting services that has 1 or a few users is much less complex than services with millions of users. Hence, my uptime is better than Google's, Amazon's, and Azure's, etc.
This is such a common misconception. The services I self-host was configured by me, if anything goes down (which they very rarely do), I know the exact cause and have it fixed in minutes. When some company's cloud service goes down I'm completely at their mercy. I also spend very little time on maintaining these services, just security updates, which are mostly automated.
Bottom line, maintaining and self-hosting services that has 1 or a few users is much less complex than services with millions of users. Hence, my uptime is better than Google's, Amazon's, and Azure's, etc.