Google Downtime This Year: 7 Minutes

Pingdom has done an accounting of the uptime of the top 20 websites on the internet (according to Alexa). Their results show that Google has suffered a mere 7 minutes of downtime thus far in 2007, or 0.00540123332% downtime, and can thus boast uptime of an impressive 99.9945988%.
Of course, that isn’t the best uptime in the biz. Google, with the second biggest single website on the internet, had more downtime than #1 website Yahoo, which had uptime of 100%. Yes, somehow Yahoo didn’t go down for any measurable amount of time at all so far this year. Yes, much better than YouTube’s 4 hours 44 minutes of downtime, Blogger’s 4 hours 47 minutes, or MSN’s 2 hours 45 minutes. Yahoo’s marks are impressive, but I doubt anyone noticed when Google went down, or couldn’t find anything else to do for seven minutes.
Oh, and YouTube’s […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg