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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
And presumably IBM was able to (and AWS is able to) charge a premium based on that perception.
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Of course. But let's be real about it--if you're me, and it's your
entire business, in that backup, your life and livelihood
and that of your employees/contractors, too, if and when the mascara hits the fan...that premium would be cheap in hindsight.
Spoiler:
There's a never-ceasing weight that bears down on you, when you leave off being a single consultant, or service provider, and add people whose livelihoods rely utterly on you. If I'd known then, what I know now, I might not have done it--but that weight is always, always there. You're not just taking care of yourself, or you and yours, any longer; you have people, their kids, the roofs over their heads...it's the single hardest thing, IME, about running a small business. It's onerous.
I've had businesses completely up and disappear on me, on the Net. It's not my first Ghosting rodeo. That premium, for me, would indeed be cheap peace of mind. Does it mean that Amazon S3
can't disppear? No, but at least I'd most likely have
some notice and some ability to recover what's there, first.
Hitch