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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by lima on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @10:21AM (#14246535)

100% uptime is an unrealistical claim. There are so many things that can go wrong with a VPS (that is, by design, only ever running on one node at the time). The probability of that node failing or a messed up route taking offline all routers at once is low, but it's not 0%.

In order to even come close to 100%, you need a multi-region distributed system and even then, so many things can go wrong.

Look at their outage credits (https://www.vultr.com/sla/) if you want to get realistical percentages.

Even Google Cloud Platform - which has multiple layers of redundancy at every level - does not claim 100% uptime: https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla

Disclaimer: I work for a competitor who would never advertise 100% uptime - it's a known fact that shit happens

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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by joedicastro on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:59PM (#14250527)

I totally agree with this, after all is common sense. Even if all the hardware were perfect, and all the software were bugless, you would still have to deal with physics and with those imperfect and error-prone machines that set up all the things called humans.

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