[HN Gopher] No Uptime Hosting (2006)
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       No Uptime Hosting (2006)
        
       Author : Viraxi
       Score  : 239 points
       Date   : 2024-07-20 13:21 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (nouptime.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (nouptime.com)
        
       | RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
       | This is a great host for all my privacy disclosures for my
       | websites and apps.
        
       | janwillemb wrote:
       | Free identity theft included!
        
       | DrWhax wrote:
       | You might also like http://pauperhosting.nl/
        
         | mrklol wrote:
         | The link behind "Click here for English" is a good one, I have
         | to remember that. Good idea.
        
           | input_sh wrote:
           | Next to a German flag, even though the website's in Dutch.
           | Perfect.
        
           | stavros wrote:
           | I once had a link on a Greek website that said "click here if
           | you don't speak Greek" and linked to a "learn Greek online"
           | search.
        
         | skrebbel wrote:
         | I like how deep the rabbit hole goes on pauperhosting. The
         | accidentally included admin panel with leaked customer db, the
         | VPS demo, everything. I'm pretty sure I haven't even discovered
         | half of it yet.
        
           | isoprophlex wrote:
           | Almost all the customer names in that excel file are taken
           | from "huilende rappers - waddepjedangedaan", on a joke rap
           | album by drum and bass legends noisia. It's all in Dutch...
           | but the made up names are so incredibly funny that i use them
           | for dummy data everywhere.
           | 
           | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o4uLvqM7Clc
        
         | pdonis wrote:
         | I like how clicking "here" for English takes you to a
         | DuckDuckGo search.
        
       | johndunne wrote:
       | How do we know they even power up any servers at all, for the
       | service? I mean, they could simply just not power up any servers
       | at all. Till then, I'll opt for the 'take-my-money' plan.
        
         | ralegh wrote:
         | Ideally they wouldn't need to power up the servers but you can
         | see from the graph that unfortunately there's still some
         | uptime, though they are working on it, maybe once they reach
         | 100% downtime
        
           | ataru wrote:
           | I think I heard that moving from 99.99% unavailability to
           | 99.999% unavailability costs ten times more.
        
       | pylua wrote:
       | This is a great place to host all those litigation hold files.
        
       | deno wrote:
       | The site being currently up does not inspire confidence.
        
         | pauldraper wrote:
         | This is just the marketing site.
         | 
         | Reasonable to expect it's hosted on different infra with
         | different reliability
        
         | janwillemb wrote:
         | It even survives the HN hug of death. Very disappointing.
        
           | hansvm wrote:
           | How bad is the HN hug of death btw? My laptop can serve 200k
           | QPS per core. I can't imagine HN is that much more intensive?
           | Are 1vCPU VMs just that much worse?
        
             | thornewolf wrote:
             | Your laptop can serve 200k qps per core?
        
             | lelandbatey wrote:
             | Yes, they are much worse than bon-fide actual single cores
             | on most recently purchased laptops. But also, the HN hug of
             | death mostly happens with tiny non-static sites that are
             | sloppily hosted. If you're serving static assets it's hard
             | to "hug of death" a Casio watch.
        
             | derefr wrote:
             | The thing that gets saturated first for most at-home or
             | cheap-VPS hosting is the low-throughput network uplink.
        
             | eptcyka wrote:
             | Can you serve 200GB of an average 1mb large HTML page per
             | second too, per core?
        
             | pauldraper wrote:
             | Holy crap what kind of laptop are you running?
        
       | codetrotter wrote:
       | This one pairs great with https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
       | 
       | I mean, just check this list of features:
       | 
       | https://devnull-as-a-service.com/features/
       | 
       | And the pricing is super competitive too!
       | 
       | https://devnull-as-a-service.com/pricing/
        
         | salviati wrote:
         | Yep! Also this one comes to mind
         | 
         | http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/
        
       | lovestory wrote:
       | Finally I have discovered where my university moodle servers are
       | located!
        
       | didgeoridoo wrote:
       | > Don't like uploading your files via FTP? No problem! Send us
       | your files on a floppy and we'll upload it for you. It's one of
       | the many ways we do our best to accommodate your needs. Just
       | remember, our floppy system does not accept Windows, Linux, or
       | Mac floppies.
       | 
       | OS/2 Warp is back, baby!
        
       | theden wrote:
       | Sign me up!
        
       | teeray wrote:
       | I heard they're announcing unlimited write-only object storage
       | soon
        
         | pauldraper wrote:
         | Perfect place for hosting internal docs
        
       | jand wrote:
       | I am not very good at telling jokes.
       | 
       | But even i can tell, that this is low effort. You really get a
       | laugh out of it? Like "hahahaha, they said PHP 5"?
        
         | 0x073 wrote:
         | And php 6 doesn't exists.
        
           | Retr0id wrote:
           | That's a little thing we call a joke.
        
             | codetrotter wrote:
             | Wonder if they support Perl 6 though.
        
         | helsinki wrote:
         | Yeah, agreed.
        
         | skilled wrote:
         | This site is very, very old.
        
         | graynk wrote:
         | Yes.
        
       | hypeatei wrote:
       | Wow this is the kind of thing that will disrupt a ton of
       | industries!
        
         | jfengel wrote:
         | /golf clap
        
       | louwrentius wrote:
       | DTaaS
       | 
       | Down-time as a Service
        
       | freedomben wrote:
       | This looks like a good service for compute, but it's _way_ over
       | priced for storage. It probably makes most sense to use the
       | included disk for application code only and store all data in
       | something like S4 [1]
       | 
       | [1]: http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/
        
         | peterleiser wrote:
         | Under "Key scenarios" they include "SETI@home output recorder".
         | Ouch.
        
       | louwrentius wrote:
       | I have a new business idea.
       | 
       | I'm going to rent out 64-core systems with oodles of RAM, with
       | ZFS.
       | 
       | This is the catch: the ZFS pool is based on mirrors of 3.5 inch
       | floppies
        
         | nehal3m wrote:
         | That's a Sweet Dream.
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGfkPCZYfFw
        
           | louwrentius wrote:
           | I got the reference ;-)
        
       | iwontberude wrote:
       | Don't forget https://HostGecko.com
       | 
       | I miss these old joke websites. No Uptime is old af
        
       | OuterVale wrote:
       | The site could be improved with a Cloudflare 'always online'
       | banner.
       | 
       | https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-always-online-and-th...
        
         | rvnx wrote:
         | Protected by CrowdStrike
        
         | renonce wrote:
         | This website is indeed hosted by Cloudflare.
        
       | atum47 wrote:
       | I wonder if I can make an interesting project using the I'm-poor
       | specs
        
       | Retr0id wrote:
       | https://archive.is/fqe0o
        
         | 6510 wrote:
         | up since 2016!
         | 
         | https://nouptime.com/admin.php
        
       | Waterluvian wrote:
       | Ugh. I can't get to the purchase screen. Nothing seems to work
       | properly. 24/8 support?! This site is a joke.
        
       | surfingdino wrote:
       | Soon to be acquired by CrowdStrike
        
       | nanodeath wrote:
       | The HTML source is pretty good too. A doctype that's half HTML5,
       | half XHTML. A pre-IE7 script tag thing. A meta-keywords tag.
       | Lists that don't actually use any list tags. Raw PHP tags being
       | dumped into the HTML output. No closing body or html tags. This
       | joke has _layers_, man.
        
         | godzillabrennus wrote:
         | Needs more iframes from the sound of it...
        
           | 65 wrote:
           | Needs more <center> and spacer.gifs too!
        
           | skrebbel wrote:
           | And regular frames.
        
           | daft_pink wrote:
           | clearly you need to setup a competitor as you really know
           | what you're doing ;)
        
         | btdmaster wrote:
         | Submitting https://nouptime.com/support.php calls error('5')
         | but error is not defined anywhere in the JavaScript code.
        
       | fallat wrote:
       | Finally a service that tells the truth!
        
       | jejeyyy77 wrote:
       | everything about this design is such a throwback.
        
       | neogodless wrote:
       | The support form does nothing at all, but I think it would be
       | much more effective if it led me to believe it did a lot more
       | than it does.
        
         | fideloper wrote:
         | Agree, was disappointed there was no easter egg here.
        
         | omoikane wrote:
         | This reminds me of Microsith, which had a support form where
         | you can ask it questions, but the response was always "format
         | and reinstall".
         | 
         | https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190826/http://microsith....
        
       | dangoodmanUT wrote:
       | > Free Identity Theft
        
       | UniverseHacker wrote:
       | Less mistakes and nonsense facts in the features list than half
       | the products on Aliexpress and Amazon these days.
        
       | toast0 wrote:
       | Yeah, but does it come with IPMI that doesn't work?
        
       | tempodox wrote:
       | It has Dedicated Win 3.11, so it would be the perfect platform
       | for the current CrowdStrike craze.
        
       | anfractuosity wrote:
       | Out of interest, that mentions "Dedicated Win 3.11", so silly
       | question, I assume you would be able to install DOS on a
       | dedicated server, but might it be possible to run DOS/Win 3.11 on
       | EC2 (I couldn't find a publicly accessible list of AMIs)
        
       | aaviator42 wrote:
       | Twitter account for this site is still active:
       | https://x.com/nouptime
        
       | jszymborski wrote:
       | That is such a classic template.
        
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