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Isn’t this entire site run off a laptop in someone’s shed? And yet it’s got basically perfect uptime. Whereas the impenetrable cloud goes down every week and c
by MagicMoonlight 4y ago
Isn’t this entire site run off a laptop in someone’s shed?
And yet it’s got basically perfect uptime. Whereas the impenetrable cloud goes down every week and costs billions a year.
- simplotek 4y ago> And yet it’s got basically perfect uptime. Some monitors indicate that hackernews has a 99.84% uptime in the past 30 days. Hardly "perfect". https://hacker-news.statuspal.io/ https://hacker-news.statuspal.io/
- viraptor 4y agoAnd that still doesn't include the very short term soft-failures where HN tells you "something happened, try again" - those happen every week or so.
- bschwindHN 4y agoThis site is also quite an easy service to run - it's all text, with very few customizations that affect the frontpage that everyone sees.