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If 5 nines is a myth, what is 3 nines?
Burned By Gmail Outage? Google Will (Almost) Buy You a Postage Stamp. Apparently the SLA for Google Apps will get you 3 days if uptime dips below 99.9% for the month. At $50 annually for the service, that’s $0.41. (Google has decided to pay out 15 days credit, anyway.) Service credits from the SLA: Monthly…
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This is why I use WordPress now.
What’s Your “Web Service Tanked” Contingency Plan? | Social Media Explorer. I commented on this on the site as well. My key concern is not the service going down, but being at the whim of a “free” service that may decide to automate some processes like abuse handling. I’m still reliant on external hosting, but…