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Sounds like they got really lucky they could get it back up so quickly. They must have some very talented engineers working there.

My take aways though were they should have tested the update better. They should have their production environment more segmented with staggered updates so they have much more contained disasters. And they should have had much better catastrophic failure plans in place.

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It was not that quick tbh. We were seeing intermittent issues for several hours after the initial problem arose.

It tought me a valuable lesson: make sure it is easy to switch to another CDN & to update cached/stored urls

they are very a small team. Their CEO codes !

I do! In fact, I work like 90 hours a week. I decided to go the bootstrap way (looking back not sure if that was the best idea, but we are where we are), but we're growing 3X year over year, so things are picking up. :)

...and provides support too. Even to a low-traffic, low-spend user whose site generates just a few pennies of revenue for Bunny. Yet every time I made a support request, I got a response in minutes, often from Dejan himself. Highly recommend.

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