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Doesn’t fully convince me as having a single physical server is very different than a managed DB. If you have a disk failure you will be down until that is resolved. Which is in fact the exact scenario that happened to a client of mine and which led me to migrate to the cloud

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Unless I missed something this is a VPS in a cloud, so really its not about replacing hardware to get back up.

There's certainly an interesting problem of scale and redundancy where I think you need 3+ half full racks to really be efficiently running in DCs and then have to consider how their markup relates to your inefficiency if you are running a lot less.

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