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A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

submitted 20 hours ago by Gekkonen@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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This website made me reconsider if 99.9999% SLA and always online is really that important for lots of websites. I used to self-host my own server in my own apartment, but gave up on that after my internet provider had their first major outage that lasted almost a week. Also I didn't want to worry about the fire hazard, or the server going down when I was traveling etc.

But a solar powered server seems interesting, if the batteries could be made fire safe.

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[–] Shameless@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Does anyone remember when businesses would operate their websites only during business hours and then take most of the functionality offline after hours?

I'm possibly also mis-remembering my early internet years and just talking shit.

[–] jake_jake_jake_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

New York State's civil service pension/retirement system is still like this. Including holidays.

[–] AvocadoSandwich@eviltoast.org 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

This is sometimes still a thing. I know of at least one religious news organisation that takes the website offline on Sundays.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

B&H Photo will not process your order on the Jewish day of rest, it's amazing. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/httwww.bhphotovideo.com/find/SHcalendar.jsp

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago

we did have those with BBSes for sure

[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 0 points 13 hours ago

IIRC, the USA Social Security Administration's website operates somewhat like this, because they seem to still do batch processing (a la mainframes) during the evening hours. As a result, they prevent people from logging in so that they don't get interstitial data about their public pension.