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A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

submitted 6 hours ago by Gekkonen@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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This website made me reconsider if 99.9999% SLA and always online is really that important for lots of websites. I used to self-host my own server in my own apartment, but gave up on that after my internet provider had their first major outage that lasted almost a week. Also I didn't want to worry about the fire hazard, or the server going down when I was traveling etc.

But a solar powered server seems interesting, if the batteries could be made fire safe.

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 12 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Your business will not collapse because of 10 min of downtime a week, and if it does that is not technologies fault.

Hospitals? Air traffic control? Power grid operators? Like these are exceptional businesses, but they're out there.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

I agree, but the number of business that have actual need for extreme uptime is insignificant compared to the number of businesses that don't but think for some stupid reason they do.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Many airports are closed at night.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 1 points 2 hours ago

Good point, but that's planned downtime.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Those do actually go down. Hospitals have to be evacuated after an earthquake, airports force all aircraft to divert or the grid has the sort of outage that gets it's own Wikipedia page and needs to be black started.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 1 points 16 minutes ago

Those do actually go down.

That's the point I'm making: when those examples go down unplanned, in particular hospitals and the power grid, in particular the examples you gave, those can be catastrophic events. I.e., if we ignore planned downtime, then these businesses really need five lines of reliability during the times they are expected to be up.

I agree with the overall point that the average business doesn't need five nines of availability, but I wanted to point out that there are definitely businesses that do.