The whole point of status pages is to minimize and deflate the impact. The pleasantly-high percentages even during absolute catastrophes is an intentional design feature. The percentages are not going anywhere. The percentages will continue until reliability improves. Which it won’t.
Anyone who is actually responsible for the uptime of anything understands the difference between 3 nines and 4 nines and how significant it is to gain or lose a nine.
The whole point of status pages is to minimize and deflate the impact. The pleasantly-high percentages even during absolute catastrophes is an intentional design feature. The percentages are not going anywhere. The percentages will continue until reliability improves. Which it won’t.
a “large” number like 99.999% looks impressive, and 99.9999% is more impressive
Anyone who is actually responsible for the uptime of anything understands the difference between 3 nines and 4 nines and how significant it is to gain or lose a nine.
I thing the first nines are most important (9% vs 99%)
The first nine would 90% then it would go straight to 0%
Idea: if we run two servers, we could count as 199.9998% !!! /s