Post #2095959

2026-05-06 00:26 UTC

I’ve always wondered how many companies abuse the “99% uptime” metric because in theory you could be down for more than a minute every 2 hours and still have 99% uptime

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@piuvas@capivarinha.club 2026-05-06 16:41

@CenTdemeern1@eepy.moe wonder if it should be measured by like "minutes down/week" or something

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@CenTdemeern1@eepy.moe 2026-05-06 00:30

Contrast this with how abhorrent your uptime must be if you go below this number

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@Arrow@furries.club 2026-05-06 22:39

@CenTdemeern1@eepy.moe So in Service Level Agreements, it's common to define acceptable uptime in decimal values of 9. Important services often define well past. For example, "Six nines", or 99.9999%, means that the service is permitted about 30 seconds of downtime per year. Failure to meet an agreed SLA metric is a BIG DEAL in the business world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_calculation

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@Gulfie@yiff.life 2026-05-06 22:38

@CenTdemeern1@eepy.moe they also tend to have a very loose definition of "up"

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@uiniel@snug.moe 2026-05-06 21:54

@CenTdemeern1@eepy.moe or 3 days and 16 hours down per year :blobcatgooglyholdingitsheadinitshands:

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