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I'm not talking about temporary outages, I'm talking about data loss.

With AWS it's extremely easy to keep an up-to-date database backup in a different region.

And it's great that you haven't personally encountered disaster, but of course once again that's cherry-picking. And it's not just a component overheating, it's the whole closet on fire, it's a broken ceiling sprinkler system going off, it's a hurricane, it's whatever.

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So was I also talking about data loss. Not everything can be replicated, but backups can and were made.

For the rest, there’s insurance. Most calculations done in a research setting are dependent upon that research surviving. If there’s a fire and the whole building goes down, those calculations are probably worthless now too.

Hell, most companies probably can’t survive their own building/factory burning down.

>"With AWS it's extremely easy to keep an up-to-date database backup in a different region"

It is just as extremely easy on Hetzner or on premises

I would say even easier on prem as you don't need to wade 15 layers deep to do anything. Since I have moved to hosting my own stuff at my house, I have learned that connecting a monitor and keyboard to a 'sever' is awesome for productivity. I know where everything is, its fast as hell, and everything is locked down. Monitoring temps, adjusting and configuring hardware is just better in every imaginable way. Need more RAM, Storage, Compute? Slap those puppies in there and send it.

For home gamers like myself, it's has become a no brainer with advances in tunneling, docker, and cheap prices on Ebay.

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