Vast vast majority of arguments you hear on HN is that it's impossible to run your own equipment. That's as ridiculous as saying you could run dropbox off a raspberry pi, but tends to get pushed to the top, and the schadenfreude when these events inevitability come along is too good to miss.
Every few months another major outage of another cloud provider hits the headlines, meanwhile millions of small companies have no problem with the uptime of their 'legacy' services.
I was at a farm a few weeks ago, the farmer had a server in a closet. It did break on occasion, when there was a power outage. His desktop and internet broke too, so what would the point in his server working.
If it was hosted on google it wouldn't have been working this morning, despite his computer being fine.
If you build your business processes around accepting failure, it's not a problem. It's far easier to keep at least one out of 3 machines online for 99.999% of the time than to keep a single service running for the same time.
Every few months another major outage of another cloud provider hits the headlines, meanwhile millions of small companies have no problem with the uptime of their 'legacy' services.
I was at a farm a few weeks ago, the farmer had a server in a closet. It did break on occasion, when there was a power outage. His desktop and internet broke too, so what would the point in his server working.
If it was hosted on google it wouldn't have been working this morning, despite his computer being fine.
If you build your business processes around accepting failure, it's not a problem. It's far easier to keep at least one out of 3 machines online for 99.999% of the time than to keep a single service running for the same time.