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		isatty on Sept 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly u... I don't have experience on their VM's and have only used the dedicates to host personal projects/and non critical infrastructure. However, you should be treating your VMs as disposable and not as pets.

kjaftaedi on Sept 4, 2020 [–]

Imagine running a database in the cloud and someone deletes all of the database nodes in the cluster, all of your data, and your backups of the data.

VMs can be disposable, but if you have data you want to keep, you should have a second copy hosted by a separate organization .. well that was my lesson anyway.

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