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My website running on an old laptop in my cupboard is doing just fine.


I have this theory of something I call “importance radiation.”

An old mini PC running a home media server and a Minecraft server will run flawlessly forever. Put something of any business importance on it and it will fail tomorrow.

Related, I’m sure, is the fact that things like furnaces and water heaters will die on holidays.


That's a great concept. It explains a lot, actually!


When your laptop dies it's gonna be a pretty long outage too.


I will find another one




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