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z3t4 on Feb 28, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Is S3 down?

I use a master and four mirror slaves. Then use round robin for reads. I used to have three slaves, but when two of them was down at the same time I got nervous and set up one more.

DenisM on Feb 28, 2017 [–]

How does that work with S3? Your master and slaves are presumably just SQL databases, right? Or?

z3t4 on Feb 28, 2017 | [–]

vps via different providers. think RAID but with VPS.

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