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0 pointsjpdoctor14y ago0 comments

... which translates to 3ms of downtime in 10 years with their current data, which makes no sense.

I'm guessing it's closer to the way that telecom guys work: 1 bit error in 10^12 bits is common for fiber comm.

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Looks like they're differentiating between durability ("99.999999999%") and availability ("99.99%").

So it's not uptime that has 11 9s…my mistake. Should have checked the documentation.

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0 pointsjpdoctor14y ago0 comments

... which translates to 3ms of downtime in 10 years with their current data, which makes no sense.

I'm guessing it's closer to the way that telecom guys work: 1 bit error in 10^12 bits is common for fiber comm.

Looks like they're differentiating between durability ("99.999999999%") and availability ("99.99%").

So it's not uptime that has 11 9s…my mistake. Should have checked the documentation.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse