@dboing said in #78:
> Which cloud now? Is this not just displacing the risk.
It is, in a certain sense. Cloud can be more robust (at a price), but it doesn't equate to "unbreakable", just google "AWS outage", "Azure outage" and the like, including massive CrowdStrike issue earlier this year.
Like blunders, failures happen, no matter what.
@gpa150chess said in #90:
> They are working on it behind the scenes. Also just look at how many outages lichess had up until now? You are pretending like it happens a regular basis.
> I would be able to understand you if this were a constant problem but it isn't. If you want a 100% reliable website go to chess com. You are not forced to play here.
Funnily enough, other sites don't have 100% uptime either. And I agree, if Lichess' provider has more incidents, then all that provider's customers may need to make hard decisions.
I will stay at Fabulous Lichess - forever. I stopped playing at chess.com the day i joined Lichess. These people give everything for free, wasting their lives. Salute to all Lichess staff and Thibault. I am also that sort of person, so i know their goodness and also their pain
@chess-technik said in #93:
> I will stay at Fabulous Lichess - forever. I stopped playing at chess.com the day i joined Lichess. These people give everything for free, wasting their lives. Salute to all Lichess staff and Thibault. I am also that sort of person, so i know their goodness and also their pain
The ToadofSky comment was not about lichess but lichess provider. Lichess being a customer of them. In case of misunderstanding when not all givens made explicit. Some people like to write less than more.... Takes all sorts.
Thank you for the invaluable work you are doing and the pleasure you are providing for so many people like me!
How many more outages will you guys have because you refuse to pay to a proper cloud provider
@Hiennb said in #68:
> Thanks for the detailed explanation, downtimes like this are bound to happen in any non-distributed system. It was not a human error, but a hardware failure. Most people have no idea how much money it would cost to host a server with this many users, especially when it comes to scaling with distributed systems and load balancers. As a free platform, Lichess understandably doesn't have the financial resources to implement such infrastructure. I encourage everyone to keep this in mind when comparing Lichess to other paid alternatives.
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> A huge thank you to the entire Lichess team for your hard work and for continuing to offer such a fantastic service for free!