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0 pointszetalyrae2y ago0 comments

You can always self-host Postgres.

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masfuerte2y ago· 2 in thread

The VM crashed, corrupting the file system. This could have made a Postgres database unrecoverable. For rock solid reliability you need more than a database instance.

zetalyraeOP2y ago

Make two of them.

masfuerte2y ago

Keeping some kind of Postgres cluster running for over a decade seems like a lot of work. tarsnap seems to require roughly no maintenance.

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