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Re:Downtime last Saturday by chuhnk on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @05:16PM (#4971210)
Remember that individuals and organisations pay for private repo hosting. Aren't they entitled to an adequate SLA of say 4 9s a year?
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Re:Downtime last Saturday by nixgeek on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @05:20PM (#4971228)
As with any purchasing decision you can read the T&Cs when making up your mind and are free to vote with your wallet if you disagree.

Another factoid is that Amazon Web Services (AWS) only offers a 99.95% SLA so where did the 99.99% for GitHub come from?

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Re:Downtime last Saturday by chuhnk on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @05:26PM (#4971255)
Why does it matter that AWS is 99.95%? "Cloud" based services like AWS and AppEngine have more relaxed SLAs. GitHub is not a cloud service, its a centralized version control repository. And the 4 9s, well that's just something I've always strived for when providing a service but I do believe we should all hold ourselves to it.
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