On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Steve Meyers wrote: > I track my network uptime, and I only had 3 days with less than 99.9% of my > pings go through in August. The vast majority of days had either 0 or 1 ping > fail all day.
I track uptime, too, and my uptime has averaged 99.2% over the past three months. That figure represents 67 separate outages totaling more than sixteen hours of downtime over a three month period. That might not be so bad if I could predict the outages and work around them, but they always seem to come (of course) at the most inopportune moments. :-) I suppose many folks would be delighted with 99.2% uptime; perhaps I was spoiled by Speakeasy, who never seemed to have unplanned outages--and even their rare planned outages usually lasted less than five minutes. If you're accustomed to "only" 99% uptime, my experience with UTOPIA would prove to be entirely satisfactory to you. But when you've experienced something orders of magnitude better, outages which sum up to "99.2%" are just frustrating and disappointing. Chris /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
