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Does Github offer the assurance that customers can build their businesses on it? If you want an SLA you will probably pay more than $9 per month (beyond the im
by dmoney 17y ago
Does Github offer the assurance that customers can build their businesses on it? If you want an SLA you will probably pay more than $9 per month (beyond the implicit SLA of "I'll take my business elsewhere if somebody else has better uptime for the same price").
- patio11 17y agoSLAs are largely meaningless pieces of paper invented by folks who either think that downtime can be wished away by writing the number 9 enough times, or largely meaningless pieces of paper meant to quiet the discontent of non-technical stakeholders by pointing them to a suitably impressive numbers of 9s.
- mahmud 17y agoI have just cut and pasted that into a presentation I am making tomorrow :-) Page 2.
- patio11 17y agoI'd love seeing a copy of that if you don't mind. (Incidentally, should any of you ever want to do this to a quote on HN from me, feel free. I trust your judgement regarding whether it is substantative enough to merit attribution.)