Truth about service uptime

[Giles Orr]

On 30 January 2012 00:27,  <sammy.lao-OvU2V46eqDdvgyatUqoQW0B+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3067-lets-get-honest-about-uptime
>
> I had expected 37 Signals to have a higher uptime.
>
> Is this normal?

Their worst service was out for six hours in one year.  That sounds
pretty fantastic to me.

I remember being taken off-line by a 24 hour power outage to the
building my webserver was in: not much you can do about that (okay,
okay, "redundant servers," but maybe your business isn't operating at
that scale).  That's four times 37signals' worst downtime.  My server
stayed up for an hour or so on its UPS, but that was pretty
meaningless because the network was down.

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