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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:31:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Mark Sergeant <msergeant@looksmart.net>
Cc:        bv@wjv.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HTTP Load Balancing and Availability Solutions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10204240824450.6896-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <1019656776.38204.17.camel@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net>

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On 24 Apr 2002, Mark Sergeant wrote:

> 99.999 is less than an hours down time per year which running off one
...

  I don't get that:

365 days per year x 24 hours per day x 60 minutes per hour = 525,600
minutes per year

525,600 minutes per year x 0.001 percent down = 525.6 minutes per year 
down


  I think you might be thinking of 99.9999% reliability, which would be
52.5 minutes per year.

  Usually, when I hear people talk about 4 nine reliability, they are
talking about the decimal portion.  I believe banks and telephone
companies operate on a 4 nines reliability basis.

Tom



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