Trello is running on a diesel generator and may go down at anytime

Re:Trello is running on a diesel generator and may go down a... by atesti on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @09:42PM (#4720718)

Indeed! For me all hosted solutions are automatically dead. Too many startups just disappear so quick that I would never do business with them. (And while FogCreek hasn't disappeared so far, at least WebPutty is gone)

Given that this is a unpopular view around here anyway, I want to add another thought:

If your company has it's own webpage at datacenter A, including payment from datacenter/service B with CDN C and Twitter-integration D, using hosted FogBugz for support mails, hosting it's CSS-stylesheets on TRELLO which was baked by Google AppEngine, and using email provider E...

Why don't you have downtime at leas one a quarter???

How can a system that relies on so many components and other companies be reliable? With all those AWS-outtakes? I don' understand this.

If you host most of your stuff yourself, either everything works, or nothing. But not all goes down at the same time.

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Re:Trello is running on a diesel generator and may go down a... by tghw on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @01:29AM (#4721375)

Just to be clear, WebPutty is not gone. It's operational for another few months on Fog Creek's dime[1]. After that (or now, if you'd like) you can easily host it yourself on App Engine, probably for free, now that it's open source[2].

[1] https://www.webputty.net/ [2] https://github.com/fogcreek/webputty

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Re:Trello is running on a diesel generator and may go down a... by atesti on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @04:37AM (#4721780)

If a service one once used is retired, open sourcing it is of course the very best outcome. Thanks for that!!!

However (regarding AppEngine based solutions), as far as I know, if AppEngine goes down, there is no way to have any backup, is it? Only google can host AppEngine apps.

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