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Remember to follow the 321 of backups. (3 copies, 2 different mediums, 1 off site)

It also can improve performance when done with enough disks

Spinning disks can perform well if you do it right

https://www.raidz-calculator.com/

Just toss in some high endurance SSD’s and you are golden.

You could use task scheduler. However, that won’t fix the uptime issue.

Why can’t you run it on your desktop?

Why can’t you run it on your desktop?

This is dark

I’m not going to be a dick to them. I know they can’t control what happens in the kitchen or other customers.

What I care most about is if they are reasonably attentive and nice to talk to. They don’t need to be to crazy but they also should care about my experience somewhat. Typically I tip around 15% but if the service is really bad I’ll go lower and if I feel they did exceptionally I’ll complement them and leave something closer to a 20% tip

Honestly it should be both. Restaurants should pay minimum wage at the very least and then customers should be able to tip if they want. I have no issue tipping if the server did a good job. However, I’m not going to tip bad service.

It is normal to leave a 10-20% tip for certain jobs. However, this is just insane. I would probably lose my shit if I was prompted to leave a 100% tip. That’s completely nuts.

Where was this taken? I want to avoid it as much as possible.

hCAPTCHA is the worst

I can’t get though them most of the time. I try to find a YouTube guide but everything I can find is out of date.

The cloud is cheaper hosting things like websites that need HA. However if you are doing big compute or storing lots of data it will not be cheaper.

They asked for recommendations…

You want proper Kubernetes. Kube is for learning and testing purposes only. In Kubernetes there are plenty of different Ingress services available depending on your provider. I would look into something like Traefik or Metallb

You need something like HAproxy or Traefik

This will blow up in your face. You know enough to be dangerous but no enough to know that uptime is very hard.

AWS or Azure really isn’t that expensive if you are just running a VM with some containers. You don’t need to over think it. Create a VM and spin up some docker containers.

This is so true. You can’t expect your home server to ever be compatible to enterprise setups. Companies who have stuff on prem are still paying for redundant hardware and software which requires money and skill to maintain.

You aren’t going to get high reliability unless you spend big time. Instead, could you just offer uptime during business hours? Maybe give yourself a window to do planned changes.

This is a rabbit hole that’s going to be very expensive. Caddy isn’t going to do what you are wanting. You likely need enterprise systems which are complex and require at least 3 machines.

I would use AWS or Azure instead

I’d rather not use something created by borderline terrorists