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I think you're being pedantic over the meaning of words; true, a website that announces being up 1 minute per year and is up 1 minute per year is 100% reliable.

by rakoo 5y ago

I think you're being pedantic over the meaning of words; true, a website that announces being up 1 minute per year and is up 1 minute per year is 100% reliable. But in common discussions, reliable really means "up and running". Now, maybe you're right and we should be using another word, and aim towards less uptime ?

Juliate 5y ago
Well, maybe that's pedantic, but reliability has a precise meaning that means hard money through service level agreements. So yes, it's worth it to be specific over the difference between being available and being reliable (== meeting expectations, including being unavailable at times). If I claim a 99.5% uptime SLA guarantee for my webservice and that it does, it's reliable. However, 0.5% of the time, it may be unavailable _and that's not an issue_.