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.

  • No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca
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    48 minutes ago

    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.