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Comment by baxtr

3 hours ago

Who cares if a couple of websites are down a day or even two?

As long as HN is up and running, everything is going to be O.K.!

Wealthy, investment-bloated software companies will be fine.

Smaller companies that provide real world services or goods to make a much more meagre living that rely on some of the services sold to them by said software companies will be impacted much more greatly.

Losing a day or two of sales to someone who relies on making sales every day can be a growing hardship.

This doesn’t just impact developers. It’s exactly this kind of myopic thinking that leads to scenarios like mass outages.