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A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power

This website made me reconsider if 99.9999% SLA and always online is really that important for lots of websites. I used to self-host my own server in my own apartment, but gave up on that after my internet provider had their first major outage that lasted almost a week. Also I didn’t want to worry about the fire hazard, or the server going down when I was traveling etc.

But a solar powered server seems interesting, if the batteries could be made fire safe.

solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power/

Replying to @⁨djdarren@piefed.social⁩

This reminds me of a news story from the start of Covid.

Tanzanian President, “We have zero bases of Covid!”

Rest of the Earth, “Cool beans! How did you do it‽”

Tanzany Prez, “Easy, we just didn’t test for it.”

en.wikipedia.org/…/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Tanzania

en.wikipedia.orgCOVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania - Wikipedia
Edited ⁨⁨Aug⁩ ⁨18⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨16:52⁩⁩en