On: Tell HN: GitHub is down again

[muzani]

99.99% uptime means something is always down 0.01% of the time. That's an hour every year. It's not down at time of checking, so it seems about right. I wonder if there's an effect of different cloud items being down an hour every year.

[vanusa → muzani]

99.99% uptime

Until they get bought, or simply discontinue / modify the product, and/or you fail to read the fine print on the ToS. Or they simply lie.