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When they do, they at least have the ability to do something about it.


My last outage was a power outage on a sunny day that lasted slightly longer than our battery backups. Without economies of scale, installing/maintaining extra generators for a small self-managed data center is prohibitively expensive.

There's always a service provider somewhere in the chain who can drop the ball.


Like shout at your IT and vent?


Which may not be good for your uptime: https://youtu.be/tDacjrSCeq4


Some us remember playing Chinese fire drill and it wasn’t fun.


No, not necessarily.




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