May 14, 2012 16:08
The industry standard of "Five Nines" with regard to service uptime is that an online service should be up for 99.999% of the year. This means the service is allowed 5.26 minutes of downtime per year.
Change that to Six Nines (99.9999%), and the amount of allowable downtime drops to 31.5 seconds per year.
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