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DigitalOcean lost our server

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Re: DigitalOcean lost our server

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Post by freekmurze »

phamilton wrote: post #2

I'm glad the author didn't turn this into a negative review of DO. "What will you do when your server is lost?" is exactly the right question to learn from a scenario like this.

I'm well aware that this could happen with any hosting provider. Sooner or later everyone will encounter this kind of problems.

Forewarned is fore armed!

Re: DigitalOcean lost our server

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Post by r1ch »

I definitely wouldn't recommend DO's built in backup service in production based on my experience. It brings my site down every week since all I/O freezes during the backup. Sometimes the droplet doesn't recover and needs a hard reset. Apparently it's a known issue but hard to fix.

Re: DigitalOcean lost our server

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Post by __michaelg »

gdgtfiend wrote: post #4

This seems like a non-issue to me. If you're using an IaaS provider you should be treating the network as volatile from the get-go. This is the reason AWS has things like auto-scaling groups. You should be designing for failure in "the cloud"

Agreed. This shouldn't be an issue for anyone using cloud services -- or any computer really. Except for some super duper redundant mainframes maybe, you should always be able to deal with losing a component not matter what it is. If you really care, always have multiple instances, in multiple (availability) zones, etc.

Re: DigitalOcean lost our server

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Post by theptip »

gdgtfiend wrote: post #4

This seems like a non-issue to me. If you're using an IaaS provider you should be treating the network as volatile from the get-go. This is the reason AWS has things like auto-scaling groups. You should be designing for failure in "the cloud"

Exactly, to use a now-trite metaphor: your cloud instances are cattle, not pets.
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