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This predictability only matters for frequent, repeat customers. But those are the exact customers that you could just email saying "the website is going to be
by xmprt 5y ago
This predictability only matters for frequent, repeat customers. But those are the exact customers that you could just email saying "the website is going to be down on Sunday for 1 hour for planned maintenance" a few times a year when it's actually required.
If you run a business (eg. HFT where you run certain cleanup scripts after trading hours) where regular planned downtime is fine then go for it but most of the time, you don't need a downtime schedule every single week because you're not doing planned maintenance work every single week.
- endisneigh 5y agoI think people are getting too caught up in my particular example. It could be a month, biweekly, etc.
- ohyeshedid 5y agoYou will be doing that every week when the system is designed to only be worked on during those planned windows, because that's what happens in these types of situations. These windows are also when people discover how fragile their infrastructure is; when it doesn't come back up and now everyone is panicking and well past the planned downtime window.