The view of the customer is the one that counts. Don't get me wrong, I really like what you've all done here. I'm just trying to understand it better thats all. All the downvotes imply to me that I'm not communicating well this morning ;-)
Re:37signals publishing uptime data
by FireBeyond on Monday January 02, 2012 @04:11PM
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I understand your communication just fine. HN is however not immune to its own little cults or pockets of personality worship. Questioning some of those people, however validly, will often result in downvoting for your gall.
(We also have thousands of internal health checks and alerts for other metrics.)
The key here is this reflects the view of the customer. (In other words if we down a system internally but there is no customer facing outage, yay redundancy and failover, then it would not show up here as long as the site was continuing to function with full health.)