[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.