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		ex3ndr on Nov 13, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud If i can buy two desktops instead of one server then i can made a nice failover configuration instead of using just one server. Also as i know google and fb think that ecc is useless, isn't it? Well, just order 50 of them and install k8s.

puzzle on Nov 13, 2016 [–]

Failover is useless when you have already increased your chances of corrupting data. Even with ECC there's some degree of corruption; doing without is suicidal.

Google figured quite early in its life that RAM was the one component not to skimp on: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html

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