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How We Think About Hosting Reliability

A practical reliability model for teams running customer-facing products.

Feb 19, 2026OnPoint Team

Reliability is not just uptime. It is about predictable behavior under normal load and graceful behavior under stress.

Our baseline model

  1. Keep architecture understandable.
  2. Monitor what matters before incidents happen.
  3. Practice repeatable recovery.

Reliability checklist

  • Define SLOs per product surface.
  • Set alerts for user-visible regressions.
  • Document rollback and restore playbooks.
  • Review post-incident learnings monthly.

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