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98% uptime is down roughly: * 1 minute every hour, or * 3h20 every week, or * 1 week every year I know about hyperbole for making a point, but does Basecamp
by eftpotrm 16y ago
98% uptime is down roughly:
* 1 minute every hour, or
* 3h20 every week, or
* 1 week every year
I know about hyperbole for making a point, but does Basecamp really total anything like a week's downtime per year? If so, why? I'm pretty sure I've never had anything like that bad a number and equally that I wouldn't be happy using a service that did.
The general thrust is right: high reliability is expensive and you need to look at cost/benefit not chest-beating. But let's be honest about what we're actually aiming at.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoRegular maintenance is enough to account for that. Its really easy to hit 98% uptime (2% downtime). Just take your eyes off of your homegrown solution for a day.
- rudiger 16y agoThis article is from 2005. It's quite likely that Basecamp's downtime was around a week per year. At that time, Rails was expected to have ~400 restarts a day[1] ;) [1] http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/31-myth-2-rails-is-expected-to-crash-400-timesday http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/31-myth-2-rails-is-expecte...