Comment by rldjbpin

feels like the main message is missed by seeing most of the discourse here:

> Outages like today's are a good thing because they're a warning. They can force redundancy and resilience into systems.

the advice is not to shun big companies and providers, but rather have a backup solution built-in for situations like this. switching solely to an in-house alternative is not always a great idea, but it can be a great backup solution.