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Part of the reason I made this thread is: we used the VPS from AdvinServers for a development project with several (paid) developers. It went down during work hours, so the time wasted was more $$ than the VPS obviously. Barely been a week with them and already faced a 1 hour+ outage. It's frustrating to say the least but fortunately otherwise the performance of the VPS is top-tier.
The answer isn't always AWS, GCP or Vultr, etc. - there are plenty other providers that aren't very LET esque, like Upcloud, but also not very hyperscaler-ish, which have outstanding uptime track records. That said, comparing pricing between Upcloud and Advin is like comparing apples and avocados.
The topic of this thread is the very reason I am avoiding LET providers and facing this issue within the first week reinforced my (hopefully wrong) view about them.
that and you're supporting people/small groups who in MOST cases are trying to make a good product, are actually actively building cool systems and networks. some are lazy and just sort of sell space on rented servers...which is fine...but you have some serious maniac providers who build out some really cool environments. i prefer to support that.
like for example look at @ComputeBox for example who have custom high performance systems or @RoyaleHosting who builds out their own DC environments and even custom panels to control their corero services and such. @Clouvider who is wild for their network deployment. there's innovation here really and sometimes that has headaches
but lets be real AWS even has routine LARGE outages
Unfortunately that’s just part of the game. Some businesses lose thousands of dollars (or even more) if their server that hosts their storefront goes offline for an hour. The best insurance is perhaps keeping redundancy with different providers if at all possible. They can be all LET providers; it’s super unlikely that multiple providers will go down at once unless there’s a regional outage.
Its just chance.
You could have been hit with an outage the minute you signed up for with any provider, LET or otherwise.
Usually if things are super critical for uptime, one would plan for contingencies.
What if your/ developers iSP went kaput? You would have lost time even there.
I believe the consensus is not that LET / big label providers are good/ bad.
One needs to have proper DR plan in place if it is super critical for business.
One thing I have learned - behind every outage there is a bigger hidden outage. So have N+1 redundancies.
Many providers in LET (except seasonal hosts) are serious and strive hard to maintain the best quality of support/ services.
the reality is that if you are losing this much money during an outage, you failed when your deployment is single-homed to one provider in one region and is just not resilient at all. this is calculating risk tolerance when deciding if you want to pay for building out across regions with active-active mutli-region deployments or failover zones. i'm certain some people here do this sort of stuff by themselves with their own projects or at work
Truth is,
They often have outages too.
its such a copium that you all act like aws gcp and other big name cloud providers have the same or even close to same uptime and reliability than a random let host
if thats what you want to think to make your $7/y investment worth it then sure babes go ahead
If they paid extra for SLA and it was breached, maybe.
DNS
And you had no redundancy? No DR server? What a shame.