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> A service that says 'here is an alternative to our service'?

I actually see this quite a bit. I think the reason for it is that it's a good way to show complexity or moving parts that can break in a process, where the marketing service is just a drop in and start. We can see the SQLite backup process here's and it's not too bad, but we can also see there are a few things that can go wrong that I'm sure litestream takes care of and would allow us to avoid any issues.

For example, backing up the DB onto the local disk before copying it could fail due to lack of disk space, and them we have to deal with the notification and fix for that. I'm sure litestream is a 10 minute setup that handles a lot of intricacies like that.



It's also in the same spirit as SQLite's own page on if SQLite is a good fit: https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

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