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A lot of government websites are Monday to Friday only. I like to joke that they don't even have one 9 of availability. (e.g., https://www.irs.gov/payments/vie
by uyt 5y ago
A lot of government websites are Monday to Friday only. I like to joke that they don't even have one 9 of availability.
(e.g., https://www.irs.gov/payments/view-your-tax-account https://www.irs.gov/payments/view-your-tax-account see the "Hours of availability" section)
- viraptor 5y agoYou scared me with the Mon-Fri, but actually irs is mon (morning)--sat (night) and sun (morning)--mon (unless maintenance happens). Which sounds fairly reasonable.
- Zak 5y agoAre you aware of a justification for this?
- amerine 5y agoWhy does everything need to be 24/7?
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- yupper32 5y agoI'm nearly speechless reading these replies. What makes you ask this question? Is it privilege? Ignorance? We aren't talking about a silly pet project. We're talking about important government websites that need to be available to every citizen of the US, regardless of their work schedules and obligations. Artificially restricting the hours is insane.
- Zak 5y agoWhy shouldn't it be? It's a website; making it not operate 24/7 takes active effort and does not have any obvious benefit.
- claviska 5y agoMost likely updates and batch processes.
- Zak 5y agoI'm still confused. I'm assuming a web frontend to a batch process enqueues things until it's time to run that process. Why can't it enqueue things 24/7? Updates make some sense, but most situations I see things of that sort it's "X may be down for maintenance during these hours", which it usually isn't most of the time in reality.