Comments on: Social network downtime in 2008

By: Damon Oehlman

Damon Oehlman — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:00:25 +0000

An interesting read guys. I think what would be really interesting to see in this space is how the supporting infrastructure of these various social networks helps maintain uptime %. A lot of corporates are starting to think about different approaches to web infrastructure (cloud computing comes to mind), so I think they would definitely be interested in whether using these technologies can mitigate risk and improve uptime.

By: Daniel Simmons

Daniel Simmons — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:38:23 +0000

Note that the term “Downtime” used here needs to be understood properly – what is “down” can vary depending on the context.
For example, even though MySpace probably returns a HTTP 200 OK 99.94% of the time, I don’t believe there weren’t more occasions during the reporting period where our friend “Tom” was doing “database maintenance”.

By: kiper

kiper — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:22:46 +0000

Thank you for this great report! Lot of interesting statistics to dig through. I think 2009 will be a strong year for Twitter if they have solved the downtime issues.
I would have been interested in some data for jaiku as well.