But it’s also costly.
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Even when a service is up 99.5 percent of the time — which might sound pretty good to non-developers — it’s down almost 44 hours in a year. Three nines, or 99.9 percent uptime, is almost 9 hours of downtime, and four nines, 99.99 percent, is still almost an hour of downtime in a year.
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Data and network services company MegaPath put together this infographic showing the causes and results of downtime:
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