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by mark_l_watson·16y ago·view on hn ↗
I use AppEngine, Heroku, and Amazon AWS often - for me, the very rare outages are just noise.

Seriously, sometimes (not often but it happens) my bank's web portal, my health insurance's web portal, etc. are down -- not the end of the world, just wait a while and try again.

Web portal outages are not life threatening. I am willing to trade very rare outages for ease of use and inexpensive deployment platforms.

Q: how many people here have businesses where a few hours a month of your web portal outages (if that) seriously affect your bottom line profitability?

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I have a little blogger gadget getting 2.5M impressions a day that runs on App Engine. I don't particularly care if app engine is down for an hour or not.

I can't wait until the day (if ever) that I am making enough money on my web services to actually be worried about these kinds of outages.