A power outage lasting about six seconds screwed me today (well, yesterday) … It makes me think again about having a solution for this, and then thinking of the cost of not only acquiring this solution but providing it … Then maintaining it … Of course what I speak of is a UPS solution … I believe it would be thousands of dollars to have something that would keep these boxes running for a sustained length of time … In the case of the six second power outage, it certainly makes sense, but what if it were a half hour or an hour? To me it doesn’t seem cost effective in that I hadn’t had a power outage prior to October 10th last year for over a year … In fact, my one machine’s uptime was about four hundred seventy five days, and that was a machine installed way after the prior power outage … So October 10th to January 24th is a substantially shorter period of time … Will another one happen soon, or will another one happen in five hundred days? If at all? … So does it make sense for me to make this investment for the people that pay bottom dollar to host web sites to not be down for a little bit whenever the power goes out? Is anything so mission critical that there can be no interruption of service? For me, no. I don’t consider the availability of the Internet a huge priority in my life … This is not to downplay my enthusiasm for having a reliable connection though … In other words, should it be understandable the result of such an occurrence? … and the people that freak because they get an email fifteen minutes later than they should have should just go pound sand? I mean I guess if you were paying a substantial amount of money for that availability it would make sense, but I charge peanuts in comparison for like companies that provide all the bells and whistles … Some may disagree, but there are levels in which most people come into something … Where some may pay $5 for something, they have other people paying $50 for the exact same thing … In my case, this isn’t the case … So, I have to incur the costs and suck it up when people don’t pay when I expect they should, etc … I foot the bill all the time, and I do nothing but play “catch up” and most of the time, the people I let go simply screw me … I don’t let this get me, I guess if I did I would go crazy … But being that it’s more of a hobbyist mentality working with the machines and operating systems, I accept these losses however much they hurt me financially … I do expect when I am through my learning and experience process (which is obviously taking a long time) that I will eventually have all of these things automated in that I will simply let everything happen … I will open it wide up and expect nothing but revenue … Then I will upgrade the datacenter, upgrade the connection, upgrade the environment and eventually upgrade my status to “well off” … That would be a good thing, but for now, I sit and wonder if the money I feel I shouldn’t put out, or that I am saving by not providing a solution will do nothing but stifle my forward progress … I mean, if people become dissatisfied as a result of a power outage and deem it unacceptable, then they will go somewhere else … Then I don’t have the volume neccesary to move forward … I sincerely hope that the way I have been doing things warrants the understandability … I am open to the people that utilize this service (whether they choose to pass this information on is in some cases in their hands) … and I also feel that my innovation in the way that I accomplish things is far superior to some better known ISPs out there … Or, web hosting providers I guess I should say … I also try to be very detailed when asked about a certain situation by people … I think I may be becoming a little more vague on my hosting site, but still truthful … Those that know about this site sometimes get way more information than they bargained for … If it helps, great … If it hurts, I would hope people would tell me why …