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We pointed a load balancer at nothing. The internet showed up anyway.
We put a brand-new load balancer in front of a server that hosts nothing. Within a day it had been contacted by 113 clients from 20 countries, and more than a third were already on public threat lists. A look at the background noise of the internet, and why a balancer should be able to say no on its own.
Most people think they have backups.
Snapshots, a multi-region copy, a thing called "Backup" in a panel. Most of the time it is enough. Disaster recovery is about the day it is not. A walk up the failure ladder, from a bad migration to your provider disappearing.