Proton's Frankfurt thermal issues show the danger of bundling your privacy stack

[u/EnthusiasmRoutine]

When the Frankfurt datacentre overheated last week, Proton users lost access to their email and password vaults in one go. Yesterday's secondary outage from residual hardware failure drove the point home.

Having one subscription for your entire stack is convenient, and Swiss privacy laws are nice on paper. But putting your whole digital life on a single infrastructure footprint creates a massive single point of failure. Datacentres overheat and cooling loops fail.

If your threat model prioritises availability alongside privacy, decoupling your tools is mandatory. Keep your password manager completely separate from your inbox. Run your calendar on a different host. When one facility bakes its infrastructure, your day shouldn't freeze.

How many of you actually split your stack across independent providers, or do you accept the lock-in for convenience?

[u/poole_alison]

There's a contra for SaaS businesses that if it's just you down, then your clients will hate you. If an AWS fail has taken everyone down, they'll hate Amazon. Who can suck it up.