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[–] misk@piefed.social -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Before anyone says “you put all your eggs in one basket,” let me be clear: I didn’t. I put them in one provider, with what should have been bulletproof redundancy:

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I put my carton of eggs in the fridge, and the fridge fell over, breaking all of my eggs."

[–] misk@piefed.social -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

„I put my carton of eggs in two Amazon fridges on two different continents”

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, it seem damned easy for Amazon to just delete the fridges, so it being on two different continents really didn't matter, did it?

[–] misk@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, that’s what this blog post is about :)

[–] oshu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

The first rule of uptime is never have only one of something critical, including providers.