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"... storage is their business so I expected way better." Storage is our business and we target an even worse 99.95% availability[1]. Availability has a cost.

by rsync 3y ago

"... storage is their business so I expected way better." Storage is our business and we target an even worse 99.95% availability[1]. Availability has a cost. That cost is complexity. We would very much prefer to have boring outages more often than have fascinating outages very rarely. [1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/sla.html https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/sla.html

colesantiago 3y ago
> Availability has a cost. That cost is complexity. It seems that Dropbox's system is complex enough but still isn't as designed to be highly available (5x9s) as a well architected system on AWS using S3. Yet It is surprising a public billion dollar company like Dropbox cannot go beyond this for their mission critical customers (govt agencies, healthcare, military, etc) willing to spend hundreds of millions. So yes, I expected way better.