[Spivak]

> Yes, you get the benefit of backups, auto-restore, increased reliability etc, but.. How to set up HA databases with frequent backups and auto-restore is pretty common knowledge at this point.

Oh my god I’m gonna make this into a poster, my DBA friends will love it. But seriously these are not common skills — these are skills you pay $200k for and still struggle to find quality people. If you found yourself somewhere where the average SWE can set up a metal to production ready HA DB with turnkey live restores dm me your location so I can start looking on Zillow.

Also we’re just gonna gloss over that the AWS setup includes a HA managed load balancer that Hetnzer doesn’t as well as the k8s control plane.

Normally I’m on here telling people how not scary and complicated on-prem (ish in this case) deployments are but I think I’ve actually found someone who actually swung the other way.

[wfaler]

AWS, GCP et al have already commoditized DB management. These are pretty well-defined steps, there are no good reason why they should require you to pay someone $200k specifically for those.

I think the natural evolution is that both smaller cloud providers AND open source catches up, providing either managed services that are equivalent, or software that effectively makes your DB and other services feel like a managed service.

[turtlebits]

Access control is also something that gets overlooked, network security and centralized metrics, logging, alerting (personally not a fan of cloudwatch*, but it can get the job done).