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Re: DreamHost reliability (Was: Web hosting short list)

From: Lucas Holt <email@hidden>

99.9%
is not possible unless the company has more than 3 upstream
providers, ups/generators, never patches their operating systems, and
does not cluster.

What period are you talking about? If the period is one minute, it's pretty easy to exceed 99.9%. :-) If the period is "forever," then I agree it is impossible.

On my *monthly* reports, I routinely hit 100%, as measured by Hyperspin.com, an independent monitoring service. (It's down to 98.899% for July because I was down for about an hour when I put in a 30 amp circuit for my 3kVA UPS.)

And that's with one provider and religiously keeping up-to-date with the latest software updates. I do have a UPS and generator, but have NEVER had to use the generator, and the UPS logs show an "event" every few months or so.

But I agree that uptime exceeding 98% is overrated, and that other considerations should be at least as important.

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