<![CDATA[MySpace's technical triumph - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[MySpace's technical triumph - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[MySpace's technical triumph]]> MySpace is like a DDOS attack on your brain.

BobDope

]]> <![CDATA[MySpace's technical triumph]]> Three nines is not clown shoes. It ain't world-class, but it's pretty good uptime.

Davion

]]> <![CDATA[MySpace's technical triumph]]> 99.96% is still clown shoes, no matter who you compare it to.

SFJoe

]]> <![CDATA[MySpace's technical triumph]]> But you can still see the ads, that's all that matters!

Regardless, MySpace's data center lead, Jeff R., is awesome.

marcsiry

]]> <![CDATA[MySpace's technical triumph]]> 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.

fullman

]]> <![CDATA[MySpace's technical triumph]]> 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.

ShawnC++

]]> <![CDATA[MySpace's technical triumph]]> 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.

matto

]]> <![CDATA[MySpace's technical triumph]]> Good for them for being "up" but its a moot point if the site is horribly slow and provides a bad user experience.

mattearle

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