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You can do automated failover to Raspberry Pi, it'll hold while the main server is cared for. If you go cloud, you deserve what you get. And what you get is what you get, because it's not your computer, and it's not your data.

Someone spills a cup of coffee on the server?

Are people spilling coffee on your servers at work?

You invest in 1-2 UPSes and a 4/5G mobile modem data plan that kicks in when needed. If you really want to be sure, get a diesel generator also. Will take some time to setup but it is worth it.

- No one can see your code

- No one can shut you down

Using a colo where each instance has a backup in another colo would probably be sufficient for most.

Interestingly enough the chances of that happening are actually less than an AWS region outage :).