Ask HN: How do solo SaaS founders handle monitoring/PagerDuty?
Monit for automated restarts.<p>Hardware raid cards.<p>Plus an architecture that is robust.<p>In my experience, good dedicated servers practically never crash. You might lose a HDD every few years, but that is not urgent to fix if you have a good raid.<p>Avoid most cloud services. Heroku, Rackspace, AWS all had much more outages than Hetzner. Plus they&#x27;ll sometimes force reboot or force migrate ( =pause) your instances.<p>So if you go cloud, you&#x27;ll need failover, distributed database, all that messy and complicated stuff. If you go dedicated, it&#x27;s much easier and you only need to keep that one box running.<p>Plus, honestly, would your customers really mind if you&#x27;re offline for 5 minutes? My dedicated hoster also has a service where they will monitor standard services like Apache, Postgresql, Rails for you and restart as needed. They have 5-10 minutes response time in my experience and I belive its good enough :)<p>Also, going dedicated makes it affordable to overprovision 10x the hardware you need, so you will practically never have a traffic spike high enough to cause issues.<p>With Heroku &#x2F; AWS on the other hand, everyone else will also be scaling up when their cloud has hiccups, so your on-demand instances might not start when you need them.<p>Anyway, Hetzner dedicated + raid + monit is how I&#x27;ve been running my SaaS company for 10+ years. And I don&#x27;t even remember which year I last had an issue that was both urgent and required my attention. The Hetzner ppl can exchange HDDs just fine without me. C++ core, Ruby website, Postgresql and RabbitMQ. 100GB database, 5TB customer data.