As an alternative, around here, home phones (through voip) are making a comeback for kids.

Secure comms, no log, no photos, teaches a bit of etiquette.

Compatibility between self hosted and commercial systems.

99.999% is about 5 minutes and 16 seconds of downtime per year.

12 services down perfectly sequentially works out to 76 minutes per year, not 2hours per week.

Not saying there aren’t applications where that can’t be catastrophic, but you’re scale is off for three 9 downtime.

Google reader used to to it too. Then it died.

I won’t get hurt like thst again.

Just cron a restart

One of my hard drives started randomly disconnecting.

I tried all the cables, but got nothing. I don’t have time to fix it before leaving for work, so I’ve set up a rightly reset and I’ll hope for the best. Angry family texts incoming!