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0 pointsarcturus173y ago0 comments

Yea I’m left scratching my head too. Is there really a difference in reliability between an EC2 instance and colocated hardware?

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mrkurt3y ago· 2 in thread

Yes. In my experience, it's substantial. 200 servers in colo == maybe 1 failure every 6 months. 200 EC2 instances, one per month.

These are different things, though. If you're using AWS, you would build to account for this.

your personal experience has no value when discussing reliability as a whole

thank you.

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