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Re:Gmail Services Global Outage by joshuamorton on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @12:11PM (#19027962)
For reference, 99.999 is 5 mins of downtime/year.

99.99999 is 3 seconds of downtime/year.

As you get beyond 5 nines, environmental factors begin to dominate (if the service is networked: network unavailability, if the service is onsite, power outages and weather) any reliability inherent in the service.

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