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Don't confuse 'zero downtime' with TWO DAYS. Nobody expects true 'zero downtime', and a few minutes/hours down occurrences throughout the year adding up to a co
by ctdonath 12y ago
Don't confuse 'zero downtime' with TWO DAYS. Nobody expects true 'zero downtime', and a few minutes/hours down occurrences throughout the year adding up to a couple days may be tolerated, but... two straight days? no.
Hey, let's try a little experiment on the subject.
I'll sit here and do nothing starting right now, simulating unscheduled downtime, for the next two minutes.
You sit there and do nothing starting right now, simulating unscheduled downtime, for the next two days.
ETA: two days downtime divided by 365 days a year is over 15 minutes per day, or almost 2 hours per week ... any provider down that much & often would lose customers fast.
- duskwuff 12y agoOr look at it this way: if Verizon's service functions perfectly for the next year, they'll still only have 99.4% uptime over that period. That's pretty bad -- even most commodity web hosting providers do better than that.
- lmm 12y agoThe website I host on my home computer has better uptime than that.