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jayd16 54 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month t...

Why go live if you don't have a reasonable expectation of users?

Worrying about HA when you don't have customers that need it is one thing, but I wouldn't want to be in a place where I have to put a banner on the website asking users to please make a new account because we had an oopsie.

bombcar 54 days ago [–]

To be fair, there's a big difference between "we do periodic backups" and "we can restore to any millisecond since product launch.

jayd16 54 days ago | [–]

Sure, but it seemed to be that any backups at all were being called too frivolous.

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