Comment by Nextgrid
3 days ago
Bonus point is that with such a simple stack you don't need to phone them often because the thing just works.
Most cloud outages are self-inflicted with the endless churn trying to reinvent things, not actual hardware failure. Just not touching the working system would boost their reliability and uptime, but then a lot of people would lose justification for their salaries so it can't happen.
you get REALLY, REALLY far with a single server. Most SaaS products don't have a million users. You can get even further with just 2 servers.