[fapjacks]

Strange how this works. I moved everything to cloud providers because of availability issues. Now a few years later, I'm moving everything back to dedicated hardware in several different datacenters because of availability issues. Thanks, Docker!! <3

[mwcampbell]

Are you buying your own hardware and colocating, or leasing hardware? If the latter, which provider(s) are you using?

[fapjacks]

We are leasing hardware, and we are leasing a lot of OVH (in addition to a number of smaller providers). OVH does a good job, and if you build your infrastructure to load-balance around failure (which does not happen often), you'll hardly notice it. Often we get an email from OVH telling us that support techs have been automatically dispatched to a node which we hadn't even alerted about yet. Docker is basically a miracle drug for this kind of thing. Our hardware costs are less than half of what they were with EC2. Huge savings.

[fapjacks]

Heh, and here "often" means "often during failures". ;)