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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by lelanthran on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:24AM (#34704463)
> Just getting a highly available storage with any kind of performance requires you to overprovision by something like 12x (3 boxes with raid 1+0) which is frankly insane.

I'm not saying 100% uptime on bare metal is cheap, I'm saying 100% uptime is frequently not needed.

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Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? by baq on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:48PM (#34712792)
If only the config above gave 100% uptime... far from it IME
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