Every time the cloud koolaid come in to defend the latest drop of a SAAS system from 99.9 to 99% they seem to think it's impossible to run a self hosted service with a better uptime.

It's not, it's easy. We've been doing this stuff for years.

Doing it at billion user scale is hard. You are not google.

Maybe trying to do it at billion user scale isn't such a great idea after all.