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Re:My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used by cmeacham98 on Thursday March 02, 2023 @06:45PM (#35003703)
> the part of the system where the vast majority of consistency issues happen

This is survivorship bias: the reason the vast majority of consistency issues happen between the client and the server is _because_ the server can eliminate issues on its side with transactions and similar.

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Re:My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used by lmm on Thursday March 02, 2023 @07:11PM (#35003929)
No, you're inherently a lot more likely to get inconsistency over the higher-latency and less-reliable public internet that between the server application and database that are probably sitting in the same rack, if not on the same machine.
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