Service Downtime Tolerance

Discussions center on the acceptability of downtime and outages in online services and SaaS platforms, weighing costs, SLAs, reliability expectations, and examples from companies like Reddit, Cloudflare, and GitLab.

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Sample Comments

todotask Aug 22, 2020 View on HN

Don't understand the downvote, it's a fact that downtime does happen.

leeoniya Oct 25, 2021 View on HN

hmm, not sure how many customers would be okay with 7 days of downtime, for instance.

orf Jun 19, 2014 View on HN

Why? Because of 10 minutes of downtime?

tspike Aug 28, 2020 View on HN

Something tells me an outage will make them think about it

Oculus Apr 9, 2014 View on HN

Aren't you worried about downtime? Clients calling @ 2am doesn't sound like a fun time to me.

Denote6737 Feb 2, 2024 View on HN

3.65 days of downtime isn't going to be winning any prizes.

rpmisms Nov 8, 2023 View on HN

It'll have frequent downtime and nobody will panic when it does.

thejosh Jul 17, 2013 View on HN

Wouldn't a delay be better than full downtime?

wongarsu Jan 6, 2022 View on HN

He never said they don't care about lost revenue. I am willing to guess they considered the lost revenue, weighed it against the cost of having someone on-call 24/7, and considered that the lost revenue was cheaper.If you look at how frequently sites like Reddit used to have downtime, it doesn't seem to matter too much for consumer products. Having half a day downtime once a year might be completely acceptable.

prmoustache Dec 10, 2024 View on HN

It depends on the accepted downtime.