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This website made me reconsider if 99.9999% SLA and always online is really that important for lots of websites. I used to self-host my own server in my own apartment, but gave up on that after my internet provider had their first major outage that lasted almost a week. Also I didn't want to worry about the fire hazard, or the server going down when I was traveling etc.

But a solar powered server seems interesting, if the batteries could be made fire safe.

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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, I'm not sure what relation that has to this solar powered website.

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[–] tracyspcy@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

This actually cool.

[–] Shameless@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Does anyone remember when businesses would operate their websites only during business hours and then take most of the functionality offline after hours?

I'm possibly also mis-remembering my early internet years and just talking shit.

[–] AvocadoSandwich@eviltoast.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is sometimes still a thing. I know of at least one religious news organisation that takes the website offline on Sundays.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

B&H Photo will not process your order on the Jewish day of rest, it's amazing. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/httwww.bhphotovideo.com/find/SHcalendar.jsp

[–] jake_jake_jake_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

New York State's civil service pension/retirement system is still like this. Including holidays.

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

we did have those with BBSes for sure

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[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

My brother in efficiency, let me introduce you to https://wiki.slrpnk.net/articles:start

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

There are solutions like IPFS for decentralized content hosting so downtime of a primary resource is less important.

[–] lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Barcelona pff… now do it in Oslo! 🤣

[–] mapleseedfall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Still possible with big enough battery and solar panel

[–] AvocadoSandwich@eviltoast.org 1 points 2 months ago

Or maybe another form of renewable energy?

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Of course, it depends on the website. I'd be unhappy if my banking site went down for more than a day.

ihavenotv.com could go down for weeks, and I wouldn't fret it.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I rent a server instead of hosting at home. But it includes a XMPP server. That down would be more problematic to me.

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