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Comment by justin66

1 hour ago

> Is it very important that they have someone to restore service at 3am?

Depends on the service, but any effort to maintain this daft "gosh, what are they worried about, it's just the internet archive" line of thought is going to depend on either trivializing the needs of their staff, their users, or their computer systems. Good on them for taking things more seriously.

(3:00 AM on the west coast is work hours for some of their volunteers, users, and contributors across the globe)

> My library is closed at 3am every day!

A library will have IT staff on call. Staff need their computers to work when they come in in the morning, users need the infrastructure working in order to do pretty much anything - and why the hell shouldn't people be able to use an online borrowing service in the middle of the night?