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by arcturus17 1253 days ago
Yea I’m left scratching my head too. Is there really a difference in reliability between an EC2 instance and colocated hardware?
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mrkurt 1253 days ago
Yes. In my experience, it's substantial. 200 servers in colo == maybe 1 failure every 6 months. 200 EC2 instances, one per month.

These are different things, though. If you're using AWS, you would build to account for this.

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themitigating 1252 days ago
your personal experience has no value when discussing reliability as a whole
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mrkurt 1249 days ago
thank you.
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tptacek 1248 days ago
Your personal experience is no match for the awesome power of AXIOMS.
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