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The article scopes this as "for development, testing, demos, or short-lived workloads". Do you really need HA/replication for any of those workloads?

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but when the VPS fails, you lost all your data

You probably need to define "fails" for me. I've never had a VPS straight up "fail" before, as in a hardware level, can't access the data, dead. You may temporarily lose access to the data, but I've always been able to recover said data.

VPS backups are $1 for the $5 1GB VPS

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