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by smoe 1537 days ago
I'm actually quite surprised and impressed that I was able to open the site and leave a message while this is on the frontpage!
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I've been resetting it every 2 minutes! This is how regular servers work, right?
Having multiple unstable boxes and just cycling them round robin style is a valid solution, depending on the use case
We really did that when we discovered a memory leak that manifested itself over some days, and that we couldn't find the root cause of. We just did a rolling reboot daily when the visitor count was bottoming out.
Not far off, in some cases.