[joshribakoff]

And when your load balancers fail you can be the one responsible for fixing it instead of Google. The internet is brittle. You should use servers at different clouds / data-centers and use DNS fail over for specifically this reason. Maybe even use 2 different cloud based DNS providers.

[notyourday]

The issue is not that the compute instances are unreliable - the issue is that the super-awesome-magic-dust is not reliable and "cloud" is not the way to use compute, rather it is the way to use the magic dust to get unicorns.

[manigandham]

What does that even mean?

[notyourday]

Ask people who use or advocate using Google GLB to build a small equivalent of it using regular instances.