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by anal_reactor 1 day ago
Hot take, but in general single points of failure are less of an issue than it seems because usually outages simply aren't that common. Meanwhile maintaining whole infrastructure to avoid single point of failure is often very expensive.
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In theory this sounds great, but you only realize how much do you rely on a single point of failure, once it fails. Just see github outages or even electricity outages at your home.
> electricity outages at your home

I haven't had one in 20 years, which kinda proves my point.