[forkbomb123]

The reason services like AWS or Azure are distributed is so that your resources are not concentrated which helps with fault tolerance. If your datacenter goes down, your whole service goes down. Also as was mentioned in other comments, asynchrony also applies in the same datacenter.

[withinboredom]

That’s what insurance is for. Far less expensive than maintaining fault tolerance at the current scale. If there were a fire or something (like Google’s recent explosion in France from an overflowing toilet), we’d lose at least several minutes of data, and be able to boot up in a cloud with degraded capabilities within ten minutes or so. Not too worried about it.

[plandis]

Not sure what you’re doing but it sounds like a great example for your competitors to point to and tell customers that they can avoid these issues.

[withinboredom]

It’s a project for fun (a hobby), and given away for free. 10 minutes of downtime every 20-30 years is perfectly acceptable to me.