A mistake I will not make again: running a service which absolutely positively cannot be down at 8:30 AM EST.
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Nothing a few cronjobs can't fix.. right... ?
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22 hours a day, 222 days a year?
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37.5 / (7 * 24) is slightly more than 0.22222 (5X 7.5 hour days per work week.)
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But how does this work in a global context?
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Offer a service that is indispensable, but not critical.
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Banking web sites and telco websites are often offline from midnight to 6a (ask me how I know), and they have less excuse than Pinboard.
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The world's largest camera shop closes its web shop during Sabbath, every week. Yes, web shop. Works for them.
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People are also enormously tolerant of down time. Yeah you make zero conversions during the outage but most of them turn up again later.
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Just noticed this the other day on the
@Pinboard site. :)pic.twitter.com/ft4lKTUkUv
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