I ended up somewhere in the middle. A few things run on a small machine at home, but anything that needs to stay reachable lives on a cheap VPS. Mostly just a couple of docker containers and some basic monitoring.
One thing that rarely shows up in these discussions is how uneven the data center world actually is. Hyperscale ai facilities and a typical colocation or regional cloud node don’t behave the same in terms of power,…
Not necessarily. We’ve seen 403 spikes happen even when the edge was mostly fine but parts of the control plane were degraded. During incidents the dashboard, auth or analytics layers can fail independently from actual…
For us the main shift was accepting that “being able to work locally” and “knowing whether users are affected” are two different problems. Local dev usually survives outages just fine. What hurts is losing external…
I ended up somewhere in the middle. A few things run on a small machine at home, but anything that needs to stay reachable lives on a cheap VPS. Mostly just a couple of docker containers and some basic monitoring.
One thing that rarely shows up in these discussions is how uneven the data center world actually is. Hyperscale ai facilities and a typical colocation or regional cloud node don’t behave the same in terms of power,…
Not necessarily. We’ve seen 403 spikes happen even when the edge was mostly fine but parts of the control plane were degraded. During incidents the dashboard, auth or analytics layers can fail independently from actual…
For us the main shift was accepting that “being able to work locally” and “knowing whether users are affected” are two different problems. Local dev usually survives outages just fine. What hurts is losing external…