They seem to be working on that as well: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/05/how-to-go-off-grid...
The solar webserver is another step towards that goal.
> refrigerator which uses many times as much power and definitely has 100% uptime.
Except that the making-cold mechanism of fridges have nowhere near a 100% duty-cycle. You probably wouldn't notice if it didn't even meet two "nines" of uptime.
In fact, that's how frost-free freezers work, by taking advantage that fact to run a heater(!) for some number of minutes several times a day. A defrost timer that does 10 minutes every 8 hours reduces compressor uptime to 98%.
Re:How to Build a Low-Tech Website
by fenwick67 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:30PM
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A refrigerator is not 99.999% available (power outages). Maybe 99.9% if you live somewhere without trees and snow.
Maybe the webserver sits in a hut like Joey Hess' with a fridge that is also solar powered https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/fridge_0.1/
This article is a perfect example. This solar powered server which does not have 100% uptime for artistic reasons is probably sitting in someone’s kitchen next to a refrigerator which uses many times as much power and definitely has 100% uptime.