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▲ rovr138 10 hours ago

No offense, you wait. Like everyone's been doing for years in the internet and still do

- When AWS/GCP goes down, how do most handle HA?

- When a database server goes down, how do most handle HA?

- When Cloudflare goes down, how do most handle HA?

The down time here is the server crashed, routing failed or some other issue with the host. You wait.

One may run pingdom or something to alert you.

▲locknitpicker 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> 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?

▲runako 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> 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.

And obviously, don't use us-east-1. This One Simple Trick can improve your HA story.

▲rovr138 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.