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+[Uptime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptime) is a measure of system reliability, expressed as the percentage of time a machine, typically a computer, has been working and available.
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 **Please visit [awesome-selfhosted/Status / Uptime Pages](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#status--uptime-pages)**