Night of the Runbooks: a DevOps Horror Story
It was a dark and stormy night. Not really, of course; it was warm and pleasantly mild (the weather never seems to co-operate …
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Semiannual Report of Unplanned Server Downtime | 2020 Q1 + Q2
Dark matter discovered! No, this isn’t physics news; hold that Nobel Prize. This is about downtime; the dark matter of the web. It’s …
Top Industry Performers in Unplanned Server Downtime | Q1 The Uptime Report
Can you be incompetent and still stay in business? Not as far as your web infrastructure is concerned. All the studies show that …
April 2020 Outage Report
We will always remember April 2020 as the month that a DDoS attack took the world’s most expensive bottle of whiskey offline. We …
What Does 99.9% Uptime Mean?
An old adage about choosing a hosting provider says that everyone promises 99.9% uptime so you need to test uptime of a site …
March 2020 Outage Report
It’s pretty safe to say that March was the month where everything changed for most of us. By now, enough has been said …
Unplanned Server Downtime Costs for 2019 | The Uptime.com Report
Server Downtime Costs Businesses Without Web Monitoring This report on server downtime costs attempts to answer three questions: What contributes to the overall …
February 2020 Downtime Report
February kicked 2020 off with a terrifying glimpse into what happens when the Internet of Things stops Internetting things. If we consider our …
How to Improve Downtime Response: Error Budgeting and Unplanned Downtime
Every one of us reading this blog has seen a fire spring up and quietly walked away from the impending chaos. And everyone …
January 2020 Outage Report
Welcome to 2020, where Google Drive can fail for some of you but not others, you can’t access your passwords, and you can’t …