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Why we ask where your data lives
It sounds like a simple question. The answer usually involves a database, object storage, backups, logs, notifications and a search index.
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What happens to your software when we disappear?
An uncomfortable question to ask a supplier, and a very good one. Designing for departure makes the relationship better while it lasts.
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Why your production server should not be interesting
A clever shell script only one person understands is a liability with good intentions. Production should be predictable, replaceable and mostly forgettable.
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A backup you have never restored is not a backup
Every system we have been asked to rescue had backups. The interesting question is never whether they run.
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Who owns the problem when the application is slow?
The developer says the server is slow. The hosting provider says the server is fine. Everyone has supplied an answer and nobody has solved anything.
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Most email problems are DNS problems
When mail stops arriving, the mail server is rarely the thing that broke. Three records decide whether you are believed.
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What "managed" should actually mean
The word describes everything from a fully operated system to a provider who installed the operating system once and will answer an email if it catches fire.
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The cheapest server is rarely the cheapest server
A server advertised at €8 a month costs €8 a month. That is not the same as what running your system on it costs.
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Why boring technology is often the right technology
New technology is fun. Production systems are not supposed to be fun. What a mature technology has accumulated does not show up in a feature comparison.
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