Posted by Wayne Parham [ 68.91.12.172 ] on September 22, 2004 at 20:36:48:

In Reply to: Re: Posts? posted by Webmaster on September 22, 2004 at 19:43:26:

Hi Sheri,

I appreciate your divvy'ing the system and making more space available. I appreciate all your work on the system.

But I don't know that I'd say it has enjoyed 99.99% uptime. I don't think it's down 50% of the time either, but I think Terry was just using that as an expression to mean "a lot."

I come to ART pretty often to support the π Speakers forum and what not. So I think I have a pretty good feel for it. The 0.01% downtime metric may be accurate if you consider it as time spent with the server power light on, but it is certainly not true for useable service. If the disk drives can't be written to, then a discussion forum is pretty much useless.

Even if we only considered today's outage, then the yearly downtime would be 0.27%. If it ran perfectly for the rest of a year, it would have been up all but 0.27% of the time. But I recall a few DOS attacks and some other stuff in the early days, particularly during transitions between servers. So I'm guessing the system was probably down something like 1% or 2% of the time.

I'm pretty happy with that. Of course, I'd rather the π Speakers forum be up 100% of the time. It's frustrating when it has a glitch, and always seems to happen right when someone needs support the most. But it's usually just temporary and things are going again pretty quickly. I'm very happy with the site, all in all.

I just wanted to throw that in, because I thought the 0.01% remark would probably raise some eyebrows.

Wayne

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