[154376] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FYI Netflix is down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Downs)
Tue Jul 3 11:17:44 2012
From: James Downs <egon@egon.cc>
In-Reply-To: <1C7B96053DD7814496A0D1E71661B68302CF5CEA@SMF-ENTXM-001.sac.ragingwire.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 08:15:18 -0700
To: "Dan Golding" <dgolding@ragingwire.com>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 3, 2012, at 6:11 AM, Dan Golding wrote:
> Also, I don't think there is an acceptable level of downtime for =
water.
> Neither do water utilities.=20
I remember a certain conversation I had with a web-developer. We were =
talking about "zero downtime releases". He thought it was acceptable if =
the website went down for 15 minutes, "because people will just come =
back". Naturally, he was not as forgiving about the idea that his bank =
might think the same way, or that I might provide DB or server uptimes =
with that kind of reliability.
Downtime will kill some companies, and not others. Twitter certainly =
survived their fail-whale period. But then, no one pays for twitter.
-j=
