[threeseed]

You should stick to making Youtube videos then.

Because there is a world of difference between installing some software and making it robust enough to support a multi-million dollar business. I would be surprised if you can setup and test a proper highly-available database with automated backup in < 30 mins.

[withinboredom]

When you are making multi-million dollars, that’s when you spend the money on the cloud. There is a spot somewhere between “survive on cloud credits” and “survive in the cloud” where “survive on bare metal” makes far more sense. The transitions are hard, but it is worth it.

[flkenosad]

What do you mean? You install postgres on 2+ machines and configure them.

Installing software is exactly what multi-million dollar companies do.

Backups are not hard either. There's many open source setups out there and building your own is not that complex.

[icedchai]

Doing this right is easier said than done. I worked at one company that ran their own Postgres instances on EC2 instead of using RDS. Big mistake. The configuration was so screwed up they couldn't even take a backup that wasn't corrupted. They had "experts" working on this for months.

[kikimora]

>Backups are not hard either.

I guess you never setup one, because I’ve see numerous attempts at this and none took less than a month to do.

[withinboredom]

Backups are not hard. I've set them up, and restored from them, numerous times in my career. Even PITR is not hard.

It takes about 10-15 mins to apply the configs and install the stuff, then maybe another 10-15 minutes to run a simple test and verify things.

[sgarland]

> You install postgres on 2+ machines and configure them.

Oh sweet summer child... let me know how that goes for you.