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I absolutely have a UPS in my basement. Considering how little runs on it, it's pretty cheap to get a long runtime out of it too.

A lot of things I see with millions of concurrent users aren't actually monoliths: Sure, Facebook needs to handle that. But most cloud apps would better be run where each tenant/business/team operates an Intel NUC in their basement, instead of the developer using the cloud as a way to force rent-seeking behavior.

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Not having to deal with hardware is nice, and I don't think having datacenter grade internet access in your basement is realistic for most.

Do you need datacenter grade? Fiber can probably serve a lot of requests per second

Unless your fiber has an outage, then you want redundancy, multiple independent uplinks that is.

And if your whole region has a problem, which is more likley to happen than one might think, then you want a multi-region setup e.g. us-west-1 and us-east-2, and then we can start to calculate the numbers of nines, unless your username is ocdtrekkie, he can beat AWS with a single NUC while he is sleeping.

Many big things started out in a garage, with very simple solutions like your little UPS powered NUC.

Including Google. Who have now hit a point where that's no longer sustainable, and developed a set of best practices to ensure reliability beyond what you can expect from a NUC in the basement.

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