When you #SelfHost, you will never have any problems with #AWS being down.
All you have to do is:
- Ensure you have a decent power supply
- Have your own servers
- Be able to troubleshoot networking issues at 3AM because your electronic lock won't release and your child can't get in the house
- Have at least three terminals monitoring your systems open at all times
- Have a procedure to backup and recover everything in case you have a fatal disk failure
- Be able to not shoot into panic mode when the database is not responsive
- Have enough money to pay the electricity bill
- And the hardware too, by the way
- Know systemd
- Know Python
- You'll have to learn some TerraForm or something too, because you can't keep managing these servers one-by-one
- Have security in place for system access
- Have security in place for physical access
- Make sure your hobby-sysadminning doesn't get out of hand
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It's pretty easy, when you think about it