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Instead of using Rackspace.com get some actual rack space!!

thrw42A8N 2y ago
How to prevent yourself from enjoying any vacation ever again in few simple steps... I was like you, dedicated or own servers in colo all the way.. I saved so much money! I had so much performance! Few years in, my girlfriend got seriously angry with me because I was always checking my phone at least few times an hour (checking for downtime notifications, looking at the status monitoring page) and never agreed to going out of mobile network signal for more than few hours even though I told her I want to. I realized this is the reason, and started checking... Turns out that compared to DigitalOcean prices, I saved a thousand dollars over a decade, definitely NOT enough to offset the stress, additional work, boring vacations and angry/sad partner... That's 2 times my daily rate. I'd rather work 2 extra days per decade. And compared to Hetzner Cloud prices I lost money.
- KomoD 2y ago
  You definitely don't need to check your notifications and status page several times per hour if you colo or rent dedicated servers. That's just excessive, I colo and when it does go down I get a notification. (it's been 3 months since the last downtime and it only lasted for 3min)
  - thrw42A8N 2y ago
    You don't need to, but it's very easy to feel the need to do so. It's like social media - yes, you don't need to check it, but you still do. > I colo and when it does go down I get a notification. (it's been 3 months since the last downtime and it only lasted for 3min) That's how I started to be so stressed out. Few downtimes in a row during 6 months in the most inconvenient moments. Short, most of them resolved themselves, but I really hated when I had to choose between helping my ill grandmother and scrambling 100km home to my work computer - even if I actually didn't have to choose because 10 minutes later it resolved itself. It was still extremely uncomfortable. Eventually, every vibration of my phone considerably increased my heart rate. Maybe I checked it so often because if I saw the notification as it came, I avoided the moment of uncertainty whether it's something bad.
- Malidir 2y ago
  What was the cause of the downtime?
  - thrw42A8N 2y ago
    Random stuff like tmp/log folder full, misconfigured DB, the DC network went down once for few minutes... Managed Postgres is the greatest invention of mankind. Just $30/month and the data is safe. What a relief.
    - retrohomearcade 2y ago
      Who do you use for this?
      - thrw42A8N 2y ago
        Digital Ocean

How to prevent yourself from enjoying any vacation ever again in few simple steps... I was like you, dedicated or own servers in colo all the way.. I saved so much money! I had so much performance! Few years in, my girlfriend got seriously angry with me because I was always checking my phone at least few times an hour (checking for downtime notifications, looking at the status monitoring page) and never agreed to going out of mobile network signal for more than few hours even though I told her I want to. I realized this is the reason, and started checking... Turns out that compared to DigitalOcean prices, I saved a thousand dollars over a decade, definitely NOT enough to offset the stress, additional work, boring vacations and angry/sad partner... That's 2 times my daily rate. I'd rather work 2 extra days per decade. And compared to Hetzner Cloud prices I lost money.

KomoD 2y ago
You definitely don't need to check your notifications and status page several times per hour if you colo or rent dedicated servers. That's just excessive, I colo and when it does go down I get a notification. (it's been 3 months since the last downtime and it only lasted for 3min)
- thrw42A8N 2y ago
  You don't need to, but it's very easy to feel the need to do so. It's like social media - yes, you don't need to check it, but you still do. > I colo and when it does go down I get a notification. (it's been 3 months since the last downtime and it only lasted for 3min) That's how I started to be so stressed out. Few downtimes in a row during 6 months in the most inconvenient moments. Short, most of them resolved themselves, but I really hated when I had to choose between helping my ill grandmother and scrambling 100km home to my work computer - even if I actually didn't have to choose because 10 minutes later it resolved itself. It was still extremely uncomfortable. Eventually, every vibration of my phone considerably increased my heart rate. Maybe I checked it so often because if I saw the notification as it came, I avoided the moment of uncertainty whether it's something bad.
Malidir 2y ago
What was the cause of the downtime?
- thrw42A8N 2y ago
  Random stuff like tmp/log folder full, misconfigured DB, the DC network went down once for few minutes... Managed Postgres is the greatest invention of mankind. Just $30/month and the data is safe. What a relief.
  - retrohomearcade 2y ago
    Who do you use for this?
    - thrw42A8N 2y ago
      Digital Ocean