On the other hand: Get customers and traction before you build a multi-site, fault-tolerant, self-healing, webscale platform that Google would be proud to have.
I think we needlessly shame one-person operations for focusing on actual customer needs instead of ops busywork and yak shaving.
No one that I've seen so far is saying they should have a system that is "muilti-site, fault-tolerant, self-healing, webscale that Google would be proud to have".
They are saying run a simple backup and keep it literally anywhere else.
I think we needlessly hyperbolize "do a backup once a month and keep it somewhere else" into some sort of NSA operation.
Its backups. Its 2019. Its dead-easy and very affordable.
I think we needlessly shame one-person operations for focusing on actual customer needs instead of ops busywork and yak shaving.