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Honestly, downtime has gotten way better as one of the people behind (https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com). Compared to 10 y
by bwb 7mo ago
Honestly, downtime has gotten way better as one of the people behind (https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com). Compared to 10 years ago things are so much more redundant and harder to take down.
- ieie3366 7mo agoThank you finally. Tired of all the people online with anxiety who project their own personal issues by spamming this kind of doomer posts.
- MichaelZuo 7mo agoSo then why does no one offer 99.999% uptime guarantees in writing? It should be low risk to offer such guarantees then.
- staticassertion 7mo agoWell, (a) why would they? (b) "uptime" has shifted from a binary "site up/down" to "degraded performance", which itself indicates improvements to uptime since we're both pickier and more precise.
- Alifatisk 7mo agoAre we really questioning why cloud providers would offer better uptime guarantees?
- staticassertion 7mo agoYes, I'm asking why they'd lock themselves into a contract around 5 9s of uptime since the parent poster mentioned that they won't do so. Of course, AWS actually does do this in some cases and they guarantee 99.99% for most things, so it feels a bit arbitrary - 5 minutes vs an hour, roughly.
- MichaelZuo 6mo agoSo then its clearly not as trivial to achieve as you made it sound.
- staticassertion 6mo agoAre you replying to the right person?
- groby_b 7mo agoYou can certainly sign a contract for five nines SLA with cloud providers. You just won't like the price.
- MichaelZuo 6mo agoThen it’s clearly higher risk?
- Anon1096 7mo agoIf you are asking this question you don't understand what it takes to hit 5 nines in a real life measured system.
- Fishkins 7mo agoThanks for the data-based comment! Have you noticed any change in that trend in the past year or two, or is it continuing to get better?
- bwb 6mo agoNp, 2 years is harder for me to tell. We need to get more of that data public and organized, and are looking at how we can do that... We are working on some big improvements to the backend and should have some cool stuff to share later this year :)