Your business will not collapse because of 10 min of downtime a week, and if it does that is not technologies fault.
Hospitals? Air traffic control? Power grid operators? Like these are exceptional businesses, but they’re out there.
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slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I have never been a fan of anything above 3 nines of uptime even in a business situation.
Your business will not collapse because of 10 min of downtime a week, and if it does that is not technologies fault.
I don’t even bother to track my home setup.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I agree, but the number of business that have actual need for extreme uptime is insignificant compared to the number of businesses that don’t but think for some stupid reason they do.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 3 days ago
Many airports are closed at night.
- PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
Good point, but that’s planned downtime.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
My brother is an air traffic at one of the world’s busiest international airports and I can assure your their system uptime is no where close to 5 9s.
iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app 3 days ago
I found the GitHub employee! 😉
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Good news, I don’t work for microslop.
Bad news, I work for someone worse… :(
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago Slopbook?
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Na, they are one of our customers.
Ice@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
There are plentiful scenarios where 10 minutes of sequential downtime would be a critical issue. Say you’re a telecoms or internet provider - even a one minute delay to a life-saving message can be enough for someone to die.
Furthermore, lots of things are interconnected now. Your business might be able to handle 10 minutes of downtime, but lets say my business relies on 12 different service providers like you, who each have 10 minutes of downtime during a week using your rationale. That could up being 2hrs of downtime each week.
No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
99.999% is about 5 minutes and 16 seconds of downtime per year.
12 services down perfectly sequentially works out to 76 minutes per year, not 2hours per week.
Not saying there aren’t applications where that can’t be catastrophic, but you’re scale is off for three 9 downtime.
Zeoic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
His comment was not based on three nines, the OP is the one that brought up 10 min a week
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes, there are some that do, I should have said that. But the number of orgs that need extreme uptime is so small compared to business that think they do need it but really don’t.
Ice@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Oh for sure. Not everyone is cloudflare.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 days ago
I don’t even bother to track my home setup
I host home assistant and if anything goes down I’ll notice pretty fast.
- Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Things like Cloudflare should have that.
My home server is 100% up, because I never check it and that’s how it works, right?
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I didn’t turn it down, so it’s obviously up.
Schrödingers home server
hanke@feddit.nu 3 days ago
My home server is 100% up, because I run the checks from the same machine
jim_v@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This reminded me of this story from the start of Covid.
en.wikipedia.org/…/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Tanzania
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Trump: “If you stop the testing, the cases will go down. Drink bleach! UV buttplugs!”
USA: “Let’s try another dangerously old guy for a bit, but if eggs are too expensive after a few years we’ll give this guy another shot.”