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pmoriarty on July 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS

Ideally, there should be redundancy in servers, too.. With different hardware, on different sides of the planet, on different service providers.

hoofhearted on July 9, 2022 [–]

Correct.. Your production server with dual mirrored arrays should have an identical warm spare. If it's in the same data center, then you need a separate offsite backup in case of a worst case disaster such as a tornado, fire, or nuclear strike.

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