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This downtime is a good opportunity to reflect that, if the world were fair and companies were not political advocates, the Kiwi Farms ...
Could be hosted on a collection of virtual machines for about $200/mo, but because hosts can't touch us I have to buy my own hardware.
Could have been colocated in two different datacenters with master/slave replication for about $70/mo each, but because I have to also do my own networking, I have to rent the entire cabinet and can only afford one.
Could have utilized cloud services like AWS to alleviate a ton of disk issues, but obviously that's out of the question.
Could have been - and used to be - hosted by a bigger company that keeps spare parts so I can just pay $20 for a new NIC when I need one, but all our shit got thrown in a box so I had to go with smaller companies.
Could be hosted on a collection of virtual machines for about $200/mo, but because hosts can't touch us I have to buy my own hardware.
Could have been colocated in two different datacenters with master/slave replication for about $70/mo each, but because I have to also do my own networking, I have to rent the entire cabinet and can only afford one.
Could have utilized cloud services like AWS to alleviate a ton of disk issues, but obviously that's out of the question.
Could have been - and used to be - hosted by a bigger company that keeps spare parts so I can just pay $20 for a new NIC when I need one, but all our shit got thrown in a box so I had to go with smaller companies.