Re: FYI Netflix is down

[James Downs <egon () egon cc>]

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. 

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