• DahGangalang@infosec.pubEnglish
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    6 个月前

    Obv a gross looking chart, but I am bothered that the left hand scale is trimmed off. I expect those are 10% increments, but wouldn’t be shocked if Original was like 99.0, 98.0, 97.0, etc.

        • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 个月前

          Sometimes the humorous term “nine fives” (55.5555555%) is used to contrast with “five nines” (99.999%),[18][19][20] though this is not an actual goal….

          Maybe Microsoft misunderstood the assignment, and thought this was a goal. At their current rate, it’s certainly more achievable than the more traditional “five nines”.

          As an aside, I love how the following is preferences as “casual”, and then the author starts arguing semantics:

          Similarly, percentages ending in a 5 have conventional names, traditionally the number of nines, then “five”, so 99.95% is “three nines five”, abbreviated 3N5.[13][14] This is casually referred to as “three and a half nines”,[15] but this is incorrect….

      • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 个月前

        When contracting a service, usually there are clauses that specify that it needs to be fully working and available x% of time, and compensation may be due in case this goal isn’t met.

        Let’s say GitHub was down for 1 full day in the last year, that’s 99.7% availability. That’s “2 nines”, but sometimes people might say “2 nines five”, meaning “better than 99.5% uptime”.

        I’d say that the expectation for a high availability service nowadays is “5 nines”: 99.999% uptime. That’s around 5 minutes of downtime in a full year. This kind of performance from a site like GitHub is just unacceptable…

  • MBech@feddit.dkEnglish
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    6 个月前

    How does this corrospond with growth? I imagine having 100% uptime is much harder the bigger a platform is, so did Github grow a lot in the same period?

    I’m not questioning wether or not Microsoft has issues, I just find it relevant wether or not they very suddenly saw a 2000% increase in server usage or something.