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Does Heroku have an SLA? (I could not find it) At some point they're exposing themselves to serious risk. Rackspace had to pay out ~$3MM (in free service credi
by qeorge 16y ago
Does Heroku have an SLA? (I could not find it)
At some point they're exposing themselves to serious risk. Rackspace had to pay out ~$3MM (in free service credits) after an outage in 2009:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-rackspace-outage.html http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-rackspace-outag...
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- ayb 16y agoAs far as I know there is no SLA. However I really think they ought to consider it. They're at an unusual juncture for a YC-based company in that companies such as ours are relying on them. When our apps go down, we lose money. I love the guys at Heroku - they have been incredibly helpful over the past year - but I don't think they get the sense of urgency we feel in our stomachs when we realize our apps are down.
- StavrosK 16y agoThis is offtopic, but what's MM? What's the second M for?
- jcsalterego 16y agoM = 1000 in Roman numerals, but the confusing bit is not reading them like Roman numerals (2000) but rather interpreting them as one thousand thousands, or one million.
- StavrosK 16y agoHmm, so who uses this? How is it better than just saying $3M?
- marclove 16y agoThis came up in a thread a while back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1483667 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1483667). Bottom line is that "MM" comes from the banking/finance world. In banking, $3M actually means $3,000 and $3MM means $3,000,000.
- StavrosK 16y agoI see, thank you. I prefer the SI, kilodollars, megadollars, etc.
- jbarham 16y agoMM is the standard abbreviation for million in the financial world. "The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."