Google’s email service “Gmail” recently experienced an outage that lasted for about 100 minutes. Should you reconsider using online applications in your business?
As Google’s Gmail blog pointed out, the Gmail service still adhered to being operational 99.9% of the time. Do you think you can do better in-house for the price?
To put 99.9% uptime in perspective, the approximate downtimes for 0.1% are listed below.
| Week | 10 minutes |
| Month | 43 minutes |
| Year | 8 hours and 45 minutes |
A Few Questions to Ask Yourself
- How much will an outage cost my business?
- How can I get work done when there is an Internet or Internet application outage?
- Do I have a copy of my data for reference when there is an outage?
- Do I need more uptime?
- How can I get more uptime and what is the cost?
You can read Google’s response to the outage here.
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Source: Wikipedia Uptime
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