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So if one hosts one's site on AWS, then your system probably isn't going to work, eh? :)

If AWS goes down, your site and mine both go down together. This was basically why Pagerduty got out to an early win -- they never used AWS when everyone else did.

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Where you host is underrated. When I started building on-call for Rootly the first thing we did was build a multi-cloud setup (AWS and GCP) for honestly pretty overkill reliability. Don’t regret it one bit.

Just looked into Rootly - looks great. This was an mvp launch to test the concept but I'll see about building the multi-cloud setup. Nice to see another Western alum here.

Haha not quite! We host our main startup (Website + app) on AWS and have been using it for around 7 months internally, it's worked great for us so far.

But if something crazy like the 2023 outage happens again then you're absolutely right. Though you'd likely get a news alert for it - our fallback :)

If we get enough traction we'll look into a multi-cloud setup to mitigate that risk. For now our goal is to help with notifying you when your server goes down due to more common reasons.

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