What is the downside for a user to have a few minutes of downtime?
What is the upside for HN to add this engineering complexity to avoid a couple of minutes of downtime?
What is the upside for HN to add this engineering complexity to avoid a couple of minutes of downtime?
For Amazon too it probably doesn't matter -- if I occasionally can't buy something I'm almost certain to simply try again 30 minutes later
For some services a couple of minutes of downtime isn't good enough. Imagine if the superbowl went dark for 5 seconds just as the winning play happened.