Stephen Shankland evaluates further Pingdom's claims of low SLA commitment by Google and finds that at least Google thinks it is meeting the industry standard. read more » DiscussBury
"Any Google App could be unavailable for more than 21 hours on a given day, and the company could still claim they had 100% uptime. That's the gist of an analysis penned by Pingdom..." read more » DiscussBury
Robin Wauters writes about NotifyMeWhenIt’sUp, a new service that lets you enter any website or service suffering from downtime and sends you an e-mail notification as soon as it’s back up (and only read more » DiscussBury
Web hosting requires massive amounts of storage to satisfy customers needs. This ever increasing demand for storage is backed by many different connected storage paradigms including nas, san or loca read more » DiscussBury
With large companies having so many resources at their disposal; should users demand 100% uptime on webservices? If I can maintain 100% uptime for the past 6 months at my business with very limited hardware, why should I go to a webservice that goes down for 6 hours? Where is the redundancy? read more » DiscussBury
