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).
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).