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Our hosting spend is around $1m AUD a year (although a lot of that is bandwidth which is expensive in AU) and the datacentre we use took all its customers offli
by astrec 19y ago
Our hosting spend is around $1m AUD a year (although a lot of that is bandwidth which is expensive in AU) and the datacentre we use took all its customers offline for 2 hours last week. It happens. Even the to the big guys.
- SwellJoe 19y agoYou should check with Netcraft's reliability rankings next time. 2 hours is an awfully long time for a "big guy". Sure, downtime happens. Routers are upgraded and power bounced (30 seconds of downtime if the admins are good), UPS infrastructure is kept up-to-date and in working order (minutes of downtime), and server components break. The last one is possibly a lot of downtime...but hopefully MTBF works for you and the server that you keep for the average lifecycle of hosting servers (about 30 months) never fails catastrophically.