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they might not have to work during every planned downtime, but they're going to have to work during some of them, or what was the point of the downtime?
by sigstoat 5y ago
they might not have to work during every planned downtime, but they're going to have to work during some of them, or what was the point of the downtime?
- endisneigh 5y agoThe point is to create a predictable period in which downtime, if any, would occur during
- xmprt 5y agoThis predictability only matters for frequent, repeat customers. But those are the exact customers that you could just email saying "the website is going to be down on Sunday for 1 hour for planned maintenance" a few times a year when it's actually required. If you run a business (eg. HFT where you run certain cleanup scripts after trading hours) where regular planned downtime is fine then go for it but most of the time, you don't need a downtime schedule every single week because you're not doing planned maintenance work every single week.
- endisneigh 5y agoI think people are getting too caught up in my particular example. It could be a month, biweekly, etc.
- ohyeshedid 5y agoYou will be doing that every week when the system is designed to only be worked on during those planned windows, because that's what happens in these types of situations. These windows are also when people discover how fragile their infrastructure is; when it doesn't come back up and now everyone is panicking and well past the planned downtime window.