Comment by nice2meetu

We had a replication HA solution, but it was "warm", and customers didn't really want to run another server doing nothing. I think we also charged a lot for it.

The area we were in, customers could tolerate some outage. Restoring from a backup didn't take that long. I believe we were known for good support helping people get back up.

But yeah, what you are saying is all the arguments that kept coming to us. People were used to having a few servers for the database, and different front ends, and layering things like that.