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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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[–] Ice@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

There are plentiful scenarios where 10 minutes of sequential downtime would be a critical issue. Say you're a telecoms or internet provider - even a one minute delay to a life-saving message can be enough for someone to die.

Furthermore, lots of things are interconnected now. Your business might be able to handle 10 minutes of downtime, but lets say my business relies on 12 different service providers like you, who each have 10 minutes of downtime during a week using your rationale. That could up being 2hrs of downtime each week.

[–] No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

99.999% is about 5 minutes and 16 seconds of downtime per year.

12 services down perfectly sequentially works out to 76 minutes per year, not 2hours per week.

Not saying there aren't applications where that can't be catastrophic, but you're scale is off for three 9 downtime.

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 1 points 55 minutes ago

His comment was not based on three nines, the OP is the one that brought up 10 min a week

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

Yes, there are some that do, I should have said that. But the number of orgs that need extreme uptime is so small compared to business that think they do need it but really don't.