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Re:Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration by dragonsky on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:18PM (#30123131)
Your point is well made... The other thing you need to think about is that all those extra services can come with a reliability cost if your provider is not 100%. Most outages we've encountered have been because the HA infrastructure has decided to have problems rather than the underlying hardware or actual service we need to run.

Having all that "best practice" service is great if it works well, but when it becomes a checkbox on the purchase order then it can cause far more problems than it solves.

I have found that a lot of the push to outsource hosting is simply an attempt to deflect responsibility for problems rather than in expectation of actually providing more reliability.

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Re:Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration by Nextgrid on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:45PM (#30123861)
It’s great if you need that reliability in practice - and not just that you think you need it.

For every company or startup that thinks they need 100% uptime the reality is that they can not only get away with much less but in practice will end up with much less anyway because the effort and moving parts (load balancing, distributed database, etc) will typically result in something failing anyway even if the underlying hardware is indeed 100% up, and somewhat surprisingly to quite a bit of people here, manage to survive and thrive despite that (the recent AWS outages took out a lot of services and products and they still seem to be around somehow).

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