Comments on: Five Nines on the Net is a Pipe Dream

By: 99.999 « NET(net), Inc.

99.999 « NET(net), Inc. — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:05:13 +0000

[...] almost a decade. Gigoam commented recently about the fact that the current movement towards more cloud-based computing is going to require [...]

By: Transparency Is Good But Intelligence Is Better – GigaOM

Transparency Is Good But Intelligence Is Better – GigaOM — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:51:41 +0000

[...] but I think as far as getting business information and services via the web thanks to the movement to the cloud, some sort of user-friendly tool would make a complex process a bit easier to understand. I hope [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:25:55 +0000

I love that Ross includes a site that only pings every 5 minutes to try to measure the 9′s of a site. 5 9′s is 5.24 minutes a year, so pingdom.com would be unlikely to detect if a 5 9′s site was ever down.

To even attempt to determine if a site might be 5 9′s you’re going to have to ping a lot more frequently than that. And that’s just getting a ping response. I think most sites would consider availability to include actually being able to deliver a web page, not just a networking ping back.

By: Outage Fever: Netflix Streaming Was Down Last Night

Outage Fever: Netflix Streaming Was Down Last Night — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:28:29 +0000

[...] — this is a good reminder that these type of hiccups (and six hours is a long hiccup) are bound to happen when relying entirely on the Internet for video [...]

By: Google Slow, Twitterati Hysterical

Google Slow, Twitterati Hysterical — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:48:53 +0000

[...] the meantime, feel free to revisit our post about the difficulty of ensuring total reliability on the Internet, and ponder your backup communication strategies. The timing is someone ironic, as it comes one day [...]

By: How Is Cloud Computing Like Space Travel?

How Is Cloud Computing Like Space Travel? — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:02:58 +0000

[...] glitches and failures that may seem manageable in a corporate setting, have awesome power when they spread across the enormous number of users on the web. So how is cloud computing like space travel? Small problems can equal a monumental [...]

By: When Gmail Fails, Users Adapt

When Gmail Fails, Users Adapt — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:56:01 +0000

[...] Five nines is too expensive for most free, consumer-oriented web services to maintain, and realizing that, we seem to be building out our store of redundant communications. So now, when life offers us power outages, snowstorms and even Gmail failures, we’re able to pick right up and keep blogging, tweeting, texting and posting our thoughts into the ether. GA_googleFillSlot(“gigaom_ros_post_footer”); [...]

By: Faster Web Pages Makes Users Happy - GigaOM

Faster Web Pages Makes Users Happy - GigaOM — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:31:02 +0000

[...] of YSlow software, which measures web site performance. It’s a nice reminder that there are many links in the chain that create a user’s web experience, and it focuses on what developers and site designers can do to make pages load [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:58:47 +0000

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By: 99.999 | licensinghandbook.com

99.999 | licensinghandbook.com — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:34:54 +0000

[...] almost a decade. Gigoam commented recently about the fact that the current movement towards more cloud-based computing is going to require [...]