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Uptime Realities in the Internet World
schnurble writes: "My former boss has written an interesting article on the realities of uptime in the Internet World. It poses the idea that four and five nines of reliability are too expensive to be realistic, especially in the post dot-bomb economy. It's an interesting read, especially if you answer to an 800lb gorilla for outages and uptime issues."
Wouldn't you know it, an article about uptime...and slashdotted. Looks like he needs a mirror.
said if i can get this mentioned on slashdot, i'll get the raise after all...
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The boss didn't do for, though. :(
Like the Telco... voice grade telco. Better than the power company.
Our web server does about 4 9's, which is a downtime of about 8 hours a year, I think. I really suck at math though. I mean it.. I'm so bad at math I have no idea if thats right. I said "well theres 8544 hours in a year, so 8 divided by that is 0.0009, so thats about 4 9s. I think. 8 hours of downtime isnt that bad. I think the next step up from 8 hours of downtime is essentially those megacorps that have redundant systems, and sirens go off and people die when their server goes down for under a second. In fact, I think if their server actually went down for more than a second, some sort of structual damage to the building hosting it is the only likely scenario. Course, that's closer to 7 9s. I cant figure out how long any of the other 9s are cause I only knew what our average downtime is, and could do the math that way only. Wow, its really hot in here.
Could someone with an 8th grade math education please post the amounts of downtime 1 through 9 9s are, please?!
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
Even recently I'm working with a customer who wants a compromise between price and availability - but it still needs five nine's
;-)
$999.99
Problem solved.
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I think we just knocked his server down to two nines by slashdotting it.
What else would motivate someone to post an ex-boss' e-mail address on the front page of slashdot?
Five nines uptime is cheap and easy. It all boils down to where you put the decimal point.
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I believe theres more to this than meet the eye.
What other best way to get back on your former boss than slashdotting him or his company server back to medieval ages..
Follow that up with multiple queries on google about boss's info, credit cards, ssn etc..
To cut things short, by the end of the week :
Boss's boss realizes the server crashes were due to Boss, fires his ass on the spot.
Wife realizes that the new unexplained charges on Credit card from "Suzy's Parlor" were not exactly the next door cafe. Gives him the boot as well.
You evil man..you!
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If nobody visits a site that's down, is it really down? ;)
I'm sorry, I just had a type mismatch error. I saw "oracle" and "isn't really that expensive" in the same post.
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And frankly I'd rather not be in a plane that lost control for five minutes once a year.
As long as it's parked on the ground during those five minutes, it's no problem.
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
"Are ve up?"
"Nien."
"Are ve up yet?"
"Nien."
"How about NOW?"
"Nien."
"Vill ve be comink up soon?"
"Nien."
"Vill ve be up next veek?"
"Nien."
God is real unless declared integer
The same thing happened to me once, a little puddlejumper from Dallas or Houstan to Austin, I think it was.
Anywho, the pilot revs up the engine, then throttles it back done. Fine, brakes and throttle work. Throttles back up, trips the brakes, and off we go screaming down the runway.
Then the plane slows down, and stops.
Pilot comes on the intercom and says 'Um, folks, you may have noticed, we didn't take off. A warning light has come on in the cockpit, and we don't know why. Until we do, we're going to stay right here.
Now, that's not the bad part. The heat and humidity, and a plane full of sweaty smelly passengers isn't the bad part, either.
No, the bad part was the pair of off duty pilots in the seats next to me who started, in loving detail, discussing every thing that could possibly be wrong.
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