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by fragmede 1076 days ago
I mean, it is. There's a bunch of little details to get right, but it is. You're paying Amazon for the pleasure of not having to deal with those details, but those details are just life. My power's out so my website's down? That's fine for my website. I'm not running Google.com here. It's just my lil personal site.

technology has, and hasn't advanced. there's wordpress and php and the world is still the same.

You can build all that stuff, from scratch. Go to best buy, build a computer, set it up at home, get another computer for redundancy, get another ISP for backup then get a battery backup in case the power goes out. The pieces are there, it's all available to you.

If you're just discovering now, that you can do for free what someone else is charging you money for, then you're one of today's lucky 10,000. https://xkcd.com/1053/

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Man I love xkcd. Lol, maybe I am one of today's luck 10k!