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Why not just do a static version of the site for 364 days of the year and just git push on the hour of xmas? It'd be good enough, infinitely more scalable, and

by catch23 18y ago

Why not just do a static version of the site for 364 days of the year and just git push on the hour of xmas? It'd be good enough, infinitely more scalable, and offers the benefit of looking into past revisions to find previous dates xmas occurred on.

catch23 18y ago
Or additionally, he could just shutdown the site on xmas day and post a disclaimer for the other 364 days that the site has a 99.997% success rate. (or a 0.003% failure rate)
- ed 18y ago
  You're off by a few factors of 10
  - albertni 18y ago
    Yeah, even without doing the computation or just noting that 365 < 1000, it would be pretty absurd to be able to do far better than any Amazon S3 guarantee (to give one example) while still being able to be "down" for an entire day!