&quot;when previously you needed just two servers in failover setup, with capacity to spare.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know if you were there but I said the same shit to people here on HN in a hosting discussion. Some company had downtime on AWS and&#x2F;or a bunch of servers. I said something along lines of how hard can it be to buy four servers at $1-2k each, set them up as HA pairs of pairs, send two to a colo, and manage that? And optionally send another pair to a third, geographical area if one wants more uptime? It&#x27;s not that hard given we&#x27;ve been doing it since friggin&#x27; VMS clusters on refrigerator-sized VAXen. Just dirt cheap now for basic solution. OSS tools are even good enough for homebrewing it with little risk now.<p>Nah, though, let&#x27;s pay for a bunch of VM&#x27;s we have to manage anyway that we don&#x27;t even control on sites with less uptime. (rolls eyes)<p>&quot;but I don&#x27;t really understand how any of this SSL stuff works&quot;, there is just one realistic response. Run. Then run some more, hide, change your email and don&#x27;t answer your phone. Because that shit is about to go down like the titanic.&quot;<p>LOL. That&#x27;s great. Someone with a meme generator needs to make an image out of this: &quot;DevOps: Replaces Admins, Can&#x27;t Deploy SSL.&quot; I can imagine quite a few more in capacity and disaster planning. Now what image would go with that...?