Valleywag
The conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley is that MySpace, based in Los Angeles, is a tech nightmare, blaring songs through a user's speakers while crashing all the time. Skilled engineers are in short supply down south, so the website must be falling over all the time, right? Not so. Pingdom, a website-monitoring service, has tracked how often some of the top social networks have gone offline. Twitter, based in Web-savvy San Francisco, has been down for 37 hours from January through April. MySpace has been up 99.96 percent of the time. That's 33 percent less downtime than Yahoo 360, and 60 percent less than Google's Orkut. Score one for the LA crowd. The chart:
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Good for them for being "up" but its a moot point if the site is horribly slow and provides a bad user experience.
Is there any available definition for their 'uptime'? Is it simply a load balancer responding to a ping? a single http GET of whatever page is at /? A full download of all frontpage assets?
lies, damn lies, and uptime statistics.
Pownce does have frequent downtime but the asterisk is never explained. I would assume it is because it was in development until after the chart's timeline starts.
This is misleading. Pingdom's ("ping" being the key word here, at least with my logic) downtime is probably calculated when the site can't be reached at all (timeouts, 404/500/501 errors, etc.).
When MySpace has some major issues, such as people not being able to log in, they can still see all the ads and navigation, but get that stupid "we've been notified of the issue and are looking into it" error message.
Just because a site is "up" doesn't mean it's working.
Offline is just that -- the site is absolutely not responding.
But you can still see the ads, that's all that matters!
Regardless, MySpace's data center lead, Jeff R., is awesome.
99.96% is still clown shoes, no matter who you compare it to.
Three nines is not clown shoes. It ain't world-class, but it's pretty good uptime.
MySpace is like a DDOS attack on your brain.
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