{"id":2124,"date":"2009-01-24T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T19:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/1111\/"},"modified":"2009-01-24T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T19:48:02","slug":"1111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/1111\/","title":{"rendered":"downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downtime happens. And it is not pretty. But science can help. And all science starts with data. That is why  I monitor how sites like INTERDUBS are availabe to their users. A company that shall remain unnamed was down for four hours this morning, which made me wonder how everybody is doing. I also wanted to play with Google Charts a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>Accumulated downtime since April 2008. Less is better:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chart.apis.google.com\/chart?cht=bhs&#038;chco=ff0000&#038;chd=t:37,64,802,1472,1833&#038;chs=500x150&#038;chf=bg,s,ffffff|c,s,ffffff&#038;chds=0,2000&#038;chxt=y&#038;chxl=0:|Competitor C|Competitor B|Competitor A|INTERDUBS|Adbeast\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Adbeast for being clearly better. I am happy about the second place in this case. It is hard to derive the user experience of outages just based on this one measure. It very well mayb be that the customers of Competitor A &#8211; C are also happy with how things are going for them.<\/p>\n<p>In anyway I also feel good  in light of thise data about offering 99.999% uptime guarantees with a full months money back.<\/p>\n<p>Update March 2009:<br \/>\nIt turned out that I probed a static page for Adbeast. So the praise that I would have loved to give is somewhat unjustified. At this point it is early to tell how the real content pages rank. So far they are much less stable INTERDUBS though. Which is almost a shame: Nobody beliefs a statistic that makes the author of the statistic the clear winner &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtime happens. And it is not pretty. But science can help. And all science starts with data. That is why I monitor how sites like INTERDUBS are availabe to their users. A company that shall remain unnamed was down for four hours this morning, which made me wonder how everybody is doing. 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