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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by jabart on Monday February 06, 2023 @02:07PM (#34682415)
HackerNews went down because two SSDs in a mirror went down at the same time. This was due to a hours on SSD bug. While Raid-Z2 works, and provides great reliability, two-servers replicated, both with raid-z2 and a nightly offsite backup and as long as you are testing your backups it's a solid plan.
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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by bsder on Monday February 06, 2023 @05:58PM (#34685759)
And AWS goes down about once a year because US-East-1 has some weird failure. Your point?

The point of DevOps is "Cattle, not pets." Put a bullet in your server once a week to find your failure points.

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