[weavie]

What would happen if the cleaner accidentally unplugged that box? Would it failover to a backup?

I guess the advantage of not relying on your site for profit is that you can afford to not worry about a bit of down time so much...

[NhanH]

Hacker News has been up and running for like 10 years now, isn’t it? Instead of hypothetical question, I guess we have actual data on the uptime for such question.

[eanzenberg]

I think redundancy is much easier if the thing being made redundant is extremely simple? Imagine having to manage 50 different services (and sometimes servers) as opposed to 1 machine.