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Yet, catastrophic failures like this happen, and people move on. Sure, there is that one guy who spent 10 years building a 10-fold redundancy plan, and his service didn't go down when the whole planet went down, but do people really care?


If he provides emergency services like fire and ambulance people care a lot.


His customers do


Unless his systems are up but critically dependent on other external systems (payment services, bucket storage, auth etc...) that are down. It's becoming increasingly difficult to not have those dependencies.


> when the whole planet went down

If his business is the most critical thing for people's lives, sure. If it's anything else, his customers will have other things to worry about.




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