"Luckily, we made the decision at Spatie to host every site on it’s own droplet, so only one site was affected."
I think that's a poor lesson learned here. Were this me, I would have said:
"Luckily, all of our sites run on several servers, access data in a shared, replicated cluster, and a small shell script I wrote kept me from writing this entire blog post."
IaaS has only surfaced what has always been true: your data lives on little physical things that are screwed into a thing and goes through a controller that could fuck up due to cosmic rays.
I think that's a poor lesson learned here. Were this me, I would have said:
"Luckily, all of our sites run on several servers, access data in a shared, replicated cluster, and a small shell script I wrote kept me from writing this entire blog post."
IaaS has only surfaced what has always been true: your data lives on little physical things that are screwed into a thing and goes through a controller that could fuck up due to cosmic rays.
Do better for your customers.