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Re:How to build a low-tech website? (2018) by threatofrain on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:15AM (#29079567)
> A bit of downtime and slowdown can be very refreshing.

That's up to the customer to decide. Insofar as we live in a world where customers decide the fate of businesses in a do or die way, I feel the conclusion is obvious. Either the customer shares your philosophy that your downtime is part of an enjoyable rhythm of life, or you die.

Re:How to build a low-tech website? (2018) by vaylian on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:03AM (#29079994)
Not everything on the internet is for-profit. The low-tech magazine website is a prime example of that.
Re:How to build a low-tech website? (2018) by asoneth on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:11AM (#29082423)
That's a good point, but note that providing reliability adds production cost as well. Services and businesses with guaranteed high reliability cost significantly more than those with low reliability, and I'd expect that cost to be reflected in their prices.

That's why guaranteed overnight delivery generally costs more than waiting a week or two for your package.

I work at a company that provides business services, and some customers are fine dealing with irregular availability of resources if it means the service cost an order of magnitude less.

It's not common in power yet, but in the future a hospital might pay $1/kWh for high-uptime power whereas someone else might pay $0.01/kWh for excess capacity provided as available to charge their car.

Re:How to build a low-tech website? (2018) by rakoo on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:00PM (#29084006)
Most websites aren't businesses. How do you vote with your wallet to decide you accept that a website slows down ? Even when a website is a business, you pay for the whole service; there is no competition on uptime alone.