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Re:Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other... by Nextgrid on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @12:39AM (#46597621)
Bonus point is that with such a simple stack you don't need to phone them often because the thing just works.

Most cloud outages are self-inflicted with the endless churn trying to reinvent things, not actual hardware failure. Just not touching the working system would boost their reliability and uptime, but then a lot of people would lose justification for their salaries so it can't happen.

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Re:Tell HN: DigitalOcean's managed services broke each other... by calvinmorrison on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @03:17PM (#46622437)
you get REALLY, REALLY far with a single server. Most SaaS products don't have a million users. You can get even further with just 2 servers.
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