Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Is downtime more frequent, or more visible?

Are leading Internet sites reliable enough? The New York Times examines web downtime today in a front-page story, which focuses on users' growing reliance upon web services. "Now the Web is an irreplaceable part of daily life, and Internet companies have plans to make us even more dependent on it," writes Brad Stone. "The problem is that this ideal requires Web services to be available around the clock - and even the Internet's biggest companies sometimes have trouble making that happen."

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