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How many 9's are in the E14 community website uptime agreement?

colporteur
colporteur over 2 years ago

How many nine's of uptime are you paying for on the support contract?

I recall during my career discussing performance requirements like service availability or as I call it uptime. Service availability was expressed in 9's. “5 nines uptime” means that a system is fully operational 99.999% of the time — an average of less than 6 minutes downtime per year. I'm curious to know what the uptime is contracted for the website? What are the metrics suggesting that is being delivered? Delivery requirements of uptime would get diluted when maintenance support windows were discussed. One group didn't want them counted against uptime and another wanted them included.

The last few days availability of the site when I wish to use it has been poor. I estimate one stretch might have been three hours long that I was unable to even get a page. I happen to be working on a project that afforded me the time to check-in and see if the service was available. It is disappointing and discourages me from participating. 

Even when the service was available it was not consistent. Responding to blog posts was hit and miss. It was a gamble if after entering a comment that it would get posted. Maybe the problem is regional? I can complain, I just don't know how I can help. 

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  • cstanton
    cstanton over 2 years ago +2 suggested
    colporteur said: “5 nines uptime” means that a system is fully operational 99.999% of the time Going through University and also my time as an IT Technician had this principle too. colporteur said…
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    colporteur over 2 years ago in reply to cstanton +1
    Much appreciate the response CS. I will read the material. I enjoy visiting the site and responding to posts that are of interests. It gets frustrating with issue after issue preventing the smooth interaction…
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    0 cstanton over 2 years ago
    colporteur said:
    “5 nines uptime” means that a system is fully operational 99.999% of the time

    Going through University and also my time as an IT Technician had this principle too.

    colporteur said:
    The last few days availability of the site when I wish to use it has been poor.

    I believe we can be truthful here and say the availability of the site for just over the past year has been poor, and for the past month it has been worse.

    colporteur said:
    Maybe the problem is regional?

    It's a compound problem, there have been many different factors contributing to it, unfortunately, and I don't have all of the answers, best to follow the announcement posts by Christy:  Further Update on Site Issues and Performance - Jan 2023  

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    0 colporteur over 2 years ago in reply to cstanton

    Much appreciate the response CS. I will read the material. I enjoy visiting the site and responding to posts that are of interests. It gets frustrating with issue after issue preventing the smooth interaction. 

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  • misaz
    0 misaz over 2 years ago

    I think it is something like 1 (9.0%) Smiley

    Site work in European business hours but not in American. Most probably most visitors are from America.

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    0 cstanton over 2 years ago in reply to misaz
    misaz said:
    Most probably most visitors are from America.

    Asia, Europe, America - in that order, typically Slight smile

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