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senkoyesterday at 4:47 PM3 repliesview on HN

> The box they're on goes down

So? Not everyone needs 99.999999% availability.


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stanmancanyesterday at 5:04 PM

The vast majority of products with paying customers need better availability than “database went down on Friday and I was AFK until Monday, sorry for the 3 day downtime everyone”

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wahnfriedenyesterday at 5:08 PM

> If you don't care about business continuity or high availability then everything gets easier

stronglikedanyesterday at 5:03 PM

And some do, so what's your point?

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