Servers offline on the 27th

Allin Cottrell cottrell at wfu.edu
Sun Sep 25 18:02:55 CEST 2016


On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, Weedy wrote:

> On 25 Sep 2016 11:20, "Jean-François Wauthy" <pollux at xfce.org> wrote:
>> shutdown. It is not ideal but I don't think the Xfce project is
>> critical enough to require some 99,9% uptime.
>
> For shits and giggles.
>
> Doesn't three or four "nines" allow for six hours of down time a year
> anyway?

Three nines: 1 - 6/(24*365) = 0.99931507

On the larger point of backup, clearly Xfce _could_ move to a site 
such as sourceforge or github where backup is part of the deal. But 
I'm not arguing for that; everything seems to have gone very nicely 
so far.

Allin Cottrell


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