5 ms·

Servers absolutely do "go down", and it absolutely is an issue. How this is even a discussion point is beyond me.

• donovanm 9y ago
  Sure, but as a one man operation trying to get Google level reliability is out of the budget.
  • stephenr 9y ago
    There's a lot of difference between running a webapp on a single unmaintained server and "google level reliability"
• jasonkester 9y ago
  Certainly. Maybe once a year, for as long as it takes for me to notice and reboot it. I can't remember it happening this year to mine, but sure, let's stipulate that it can happen. But is that an issue? Enough to pick a distribution model for your software product that divides your customer lifetime value by ten? If you're that worried about it, you could always take some of those profits and hire a kid to carry a pager around and do that once a year reboot for you.