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In almost all cases - you won't actually get 99.99% uptime from your cloud provider anyways. That's around an hour of downtime every year. A much more reasona
by horsawlarway 5y ago
In almost all cases - you won't actually get 99.99% uptime from your cloud provider anyways.
That's around an hour of downtime every year.
A much more reasonable estimate is 99.9% - or approx 9 hours, unless you're doing serious planning and spending to account for outages. Hell - the Dec 7th 2021 outage for AWS was nearly 10 hours alone.
On your own, 99% is probably a reasonable prediction (roughly 3.5 days), and I think people vastly over-estimate how much small amounts of downtime actually matter for lots of services.