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But now you have another process to babysit. How do you keep it healthy? And you have to ensure the client-server communication won't break.

For me the main benefit of sqlite is that it's a library rather than an app.

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> But now you have another process to babysit. How do you keep it healthy?

I've been assured by many HN users that running apps/sites on a single VPS requires near-zero maintenance or monitoring to achieve acceptable uptime 24/7/365 for years on end, sooooo...just pretend it will never fail like your main server process?

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Ive been assured by many HN users that you must have 24/7/365 uptime for everything in case one of your 10 bi-monthly users decides to log on.
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Call me old-fashioned and quaint, but I don't like to build software that doesn't work all the time if I can help it, whether it's for 10 users or 10 million.
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24/7/365 is needed (or achieved) just about never. our big tech is proving 90% will soon be utopia as well. being down has always been fine for 99.999975% of all projects on the planet.
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Ok, now tell me the stat by percentage of overall market revenue rather than project count
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I have boilerplate for client-server communication that makes it pretty trivial to build on top of.

Im not saying that sqlite isn't useful, im mostly saying that using postgres doesnt have to be complicated.

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Its 2x the infra. You have to manage an additional process, auth, backups, logging, etc.
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