Server / service downtime. For a well managed company, you would expect these to be almost uniformly green, meaning that all servers are responding correctly almost all of the time.

Not being able to keep servers running is something that typically happens to smaller companies that grow too fast for them to manage. Established companies are (or, IMO, should be...) expected to have near perfect (>99.99%) uptime, and this is indicative of some expertise loss for the company broadly.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 20 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

99.99%

TBF, no, established companies tend to have something between 99.9% and 99.99% of uptime. It only increases if the company is explicitly focused on it, at a large cost that usually needs to be paid by some customer.

But Github pretends to be one of those companies that focus on uptime. And it's also less than 99% right now. So yeah, the main point stands.

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 hours ago

Yeah that's fair. It's part of the advertising in some sectors, but not all. A lot of the companies I've bought products from tend to advertise their uptime, and that's the type of company I think about when I think about uptime stats. However, a lot of the companies I've sold products to tended to not talk about it, and their uptime was often in the 2 nines to 3 nines, if not a lot worse. Somehow they still managed to keep going lol. Some of them anyway.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 4 points 12 hours ago

Thanks. I was thinking it was something biological, or some sort of light spectrum and was getting confused.