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by JonAtkinson 1463 days ago
What is the downside for a user to have a few minutes of downtime?

What is the upside for HN to add this engineering complexity to avoid a couple of minutes of downtime?

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For HN it probably doesn't matter, although what's the value

For Amazon too it probably doesn't matter -- if I occasionally can't buy something I'm almost certain to simply try again 30 minutes later

For some services a couple of minutes of downtime isn't good enough. Imagine if the superbowl went dark for 5 seconds just as the winning play happened.