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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by quickthrower2 on Friday July 21, 2023 @02:45AM (#36810740)
> We strongly recommend running multiple instances to mitigate the impact of single-host failures like this.

Make it impossible not to do so, and make it frictionless then.

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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by remus on Friday July 21, 2023 @02:53AM (#36810776)
That would presumably cost more money which is not a trade off every user would want to make.
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Re:Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from the... by marcinzm on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:22AM (#36812975)
You cannot make every user happy, and its generally better to not have a user than to have an unhappy user.
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