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		TekMol on Sept 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly u... `What does excellent uptime mean in your book?` Something like less then an hour of downtime per year. Over the last years, across multiple datacenters, I have seen maybe one or two short downtimes per year. None ever lasting more then 5 minutes.

FrozenSynapse on Sept 4, 2020 [–]

https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/ this lasted hours and affected almost everyone using us-east-1, large portion of internet was unavailable because they had no multi-region setups.

TekMol on Sept 4, 2020 | [–]

That was a "S3 Service Disruption". A perfect example of a problem you do not have with a single VPS setup.

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