I think "x is down" posts are relativley meaningless anyway. For many (especially the larger) services with multiple components,spread over many servers and data centers, what does it really mean to be down? If I can't sign in is it down? If nobody on the west coast of Canada can get in, is it down? If you can read, but not post is it down - if the front end is up but the database is not, is it down?
It's pretty rare that 'gmail is down'... much more likely that x% of gmail users are having issues. Let's save the 'x is down' post for when it really is 'down'.
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I think "x is down" posts are relativley meaningless anyway. For many (especially the larger) services with multiple components,spread over many servers and data centers, what does it really mean to be down? If I can't sign in is it down? If nobody on the west coast of Canada can get in, is it down? If you can read, but not post is it down - if the front end is up but the database is not, is it down?
It's pretty rare that 'gmail is down'... much more likely that x% of gmail users are having issues. Let's save the 'x is down' post for when it really is 'down'.