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by zamadatix 1224 days ago
Once a company claimed nine 9s (99.9999999%, 0.03 seconds down per year) uptime on their new cloud service to me. When pressed how they came up with the number their measurement they said they were measuring the percentage of time the login webpage loaded (not that you could log in or things worked inside the page and app) and the https://uptime.is/ tool only went up to nine 9's.