This 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

This 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...