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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.

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 9 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

"Hey look everyone! We never heard of grid scale batteries!"

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

This website is like 10 years old from memory, well before grid-scale batteries were widespread (well they still aren't in many countries).

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

Grid scale batteries are only a solution for transients, if that. Actual energy storage needs to be scalable like pumped storage hydro which accounts for 95% of all storage capacity worldwide.