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		uggedal on May 25, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Simple wins the upshot is that my old Mac Mini was able to sustain 4 hours at the top slot on Hacker News without load exceeding 0.3 I thought everyone had learned to not run anything on Mac Minis (and take backups) after the Magnolia incident: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/02/16/what-really-happened-a...

jmah on May 26, 2009 [–]

CouchDB can replicate for backup, but either way this test app isn't a "service" that people will care about if the hardware fails. (Software failure can provide lessons, though, since this is a demo of said software.)

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