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> But now you have another process to babysit. How do you keep it healthy?

I've been assured by many HN users that running apps/sites on a single VPS requires near-zero maintenance or monitoring to achieve acceptable uptime 24/7/365 for years on end, sooooo...just pretend it will never fail like your main server process?

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Ive been assured by many HN users that you must have 24/7/365 uptime for everything in case one of your 10 bi-monthly users decides to log on.

Call me old-fashioned and quaint, but I don't like to build software that doesn't work all the time if I can help it, whether it's for 10 users or 10 million.

24/7/365 is needed (or achieved) just about never. our big tech is proving 90% will soon be utopia as well. being down has always been fine for 99.999975% of all projects on the planet.

Ok, now tell me the stat by percentage of overall market revenue rather than project count

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