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I wish I could delete the first two words from this article's title. Uptime's related to scalability, but it's not the same thing - scalability encompasses mor
by gyardley 16y ago
I wish I could delete the first two words from this article's title. Uptime's related to scalability, but it's not the same thing - scalability encompasses more than that.
In my experience, you can get away with lower uptime but your users will crucify you for poor performance. Site down for a half hour here and there? Fine. Site responds slowly and your clients' data takes a while to update? Big, big problem.
- ZoFreX 16y agoStrongly agreed, I'm not sure why the post conflated these two very different issues. Scaling has almost nothing to do with five 9s uptime, with the exception that if you can't scale, once you reach a certain number of users your uptime will be closer to 0% than 100%.
- joetek 16y agoAgreed. Having said that, there is a correlation for sites that go down when they are hit by a spike in traffic. The danger, of course, is that when something happens to cause a spike (news mention, post goes viral, etc), that's exactly when you can't go down.
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