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Comment by direwolf20

1 month ago

No, those go down all the time. AWS had three nines last year. Bitcoin had the value overflow incident.

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reactordev  1 month ago

Credit cards still worked…

Email still worked…

Again, there are fault tolerant distributed systems out there that don’t rely on a single point of failure.

That’s not to say failure doesn’t happen.

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