What does it really mean... I just jumped onto a new host it was up all yesterday i check now and its down... checked email no notification of downtime.

And where do they come up with these numbers?

Someone calculated some numbers quite a while ago, and came up with the following uptime percentage vs downtime allowed table:

99.9% = 16.8 minutes
99.5% = 3 hours, 24 minutes
99.1% = 6 hours, 31.2 minutes
98.9% = 7 hours, 4.8 minutes
98.5% = 10 hours, 12 minutes


Lats...

thanks lat's. Just to say i dont mind downtime everyone has to go down for one reason or another every once in a while. I would just like to be informed considering im a paying customer.

For sure.

Perhaps you could suggest to your host to setup an info page offsite, just to let customers know what's going on in cases of downtime.


Lats...

Originally posted by clio
And where do they come up with these numbers?

Here's an excellent article on this very subject:

http://www.codesta.com/knowledge/management/uptime_realities/index.jsp


-Bob

thanks for the article tmx im reading it now checking to see if my site plans on coming back.... been about 45 min now that i know of.

Well funny that this has been mentioned. I offer only 99.73 on a monthly basis. that's the best I can do. I have redundancy within the system but you can not get past 99.73 unless you run three server cluster.

I don't know how some of these guys can offer 99.90, I did the numbers once and that would mean that they are running 5 or 6 server clusters or ( which I think ) they are talking about on a yearly basis.

Mike

yeah it does get intrusting.. also very annoying... i wouldnt be comaplaining if i was notified... they could go down for 48 hrs i wouldnt mind as long as its not for a stupid reason.

deathlord: are you hosted with us? We were in the process of compiling a more stable Linux kernel on the server I believe you're on -- ran in to some complications. Everything's running smoothly now. If you ever have any concerns about downtime or anything else, please feel free to contact me directly at jay@frontdrive.com

yeah jay the site i was complaining about was under you im glad you browse the forums. I sent in a ticket on the help desk. Thanks everything is back up and smooth.