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by Patrick McKenzie
Downtime severely annoys customers. Downtime annoys sole proprietors even more, because it has a funny way of invariably striking at the worst possible time. Apache has no respect for date night. So if you’re a small company without dedicated ops team, you might well be worried about whether you can reasonably promise customers that you’ll be able to avoid inconveniencing them while still maintaining some semblance of sanity in your own life.
Practical engineering choices for keeping small-business websites available without enterprise-scale budgets or complexity.
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Duration
~24 minutes (23K characters)
Release date
Apr 20, 2010