We have "farms" of millions of minuscule, robust, no-op "services". They work perfectly, they do nothing but respond to ping. Many of them have been running for more than five years with zero or negligible downtime
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If you've only been running for a week, a 51-minute outage brings you down to less than 99.5% uptime. But if you've been running for an otherwise uninterrupted year, you're still over four nines. That's why my new startup is selling Retroactive Uptime As A Service
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For a fee, you take over one of the services, rebadge it, rename it, turn it into whatever you want/whatever you just developed. Instant free SLA buffer
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Fees vary depending on the age and historical integrity of the service you buy. Services less than one year old aren't for sale (still "maturing")
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Same idea but it's private companies in the nineteenth century and it's so that in the present day you can just buy an impressively old "Established" year
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Shutting down your service, but still have good stats? Sell the uptime to us
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Gold-level customers, who are able to cover the cost of legal and technical shenanigans, have the option to purchase one of a small number of running processes from an old IBM mainframe we acquired which hasn't been IPLed since the 1990s
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@CaryMillsap I think had an Oracle script to let you pick your buffer cache hit ratio that was similar in concept -
I was merely amplifying the excellent and innovative work of
@connor_mc_d
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