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Moving. We did it today. It's been a week. I'm tired of getting texts that my servers are down when there is nothing I can do about it.

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You and me both my friend, who did you move to?

Do you have cattle or pets?

Moving cattle should mostly be a DNS flip. Moving pets is harder... and a good reason to avoid pets ;)

How is moving to another provider just a DNS flip? It's a huge pain no matter how it was designed. How can you move 100s of GBs of data when your servers are being DDOSed to hell multiple times per day?

Well the people here are on Linode, which as far as I know has no concept of S3 type storage.. so they don't have "100s of GB of data", more likely some apps and maybe a database or two that should be backed up offsite anyway (perhaps to S3 itself).

If making your environment is running ansible-playbook bootstrap.yml, life is not that terrible to move.

We moved to AWS. It's now less expensive than Linode when uptime is factored in.

Yeah I'm leaning that way, largely because while AWS isn't perfect it does at least have the "It's what everyone else uses" factor in my defence, that and when AWS breaks half the internet breaks with it so users tend to be more understanding.

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