Yeah, but he was paying the provider for providing the redundancy on this level.
We shouldn’t blame him on the technical level for what is a problem with the provider on the organizational level. If this had happened to a Fortune 500 company, Amazon would have had an army of lawyers descend on them.
I feel like many programmers (or their management) have grown ignorant to resource limitations over the past decade or so.
Obviously there is good examples like many linux distros running well on 4GB RAM and the like, but when it comes to windows, websites and proprietary programs, they gobble up insane amounts of RAM to provide almost the same functionality as in 2010.