alt Hacker News> When AWS/GCP goes down, how do most handle HA?
This is a disingenuous scenario. SQLite doesn't buy you uptime if you deploy your app to AWS/GCP, and you can just as easily deploy a proper RDBMS such as postgres to a small provider/self-host.
Do you actually have any concrete scenario that supports your belief?
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All I'm saying is that people mention HA, when there isn't a need for it or when most people are fine with some downtime. For example,
> When AWS/GCP goes down, how do most handle HA?
When they go down, what do most do? Honestly, people still go about their day and are okay. Look how many systems do go down. What ends up happening? An article goes out that X cloud took out large parts of the internet.. and that's it.
Even when there's ways of doing it, they just go down and we accept it. I never said this doesn't go down or can't go down, it's just that it's okay and totally fine if it does.
> SQLite doesn't buy you uptime if you deploy your app to AWS/GCP
This is...not true of many hyperscaler outages? Frequently, outages will leave individual VMs running but affect only higher-order services typically used in more complex architectures. Folks running an SQLite on a EC2 often will not be affected.
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