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Uptime Institute Blog
Company blog · journal.uptimeinstitute.comsystemsbusiness
Uptime Institute Blog is the company blog at journal.uptimeinstitute.com, writing about systems and business. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Uptime Institute blog as evidence on data centre reliability and fires. One commenter cites its findings that data centre fires of any cause are exceedingly rare when disputing a claim about UPS fires.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Uptime Institute Journal is our industry blog, collecting commentary and insights from our global consultants, partners and network of clients world-wide.
What Hacker News says?
> UPS fires are the primary cause of datacenter fires Do you have a source for this claim? I can find no documented evidence of it being true. The Uptime Institute found[0] data center fires of any cause to be exceedingly rare. Data Center Incident Reporting network reached similar findings[1]. The only example I could find of anyone claiming data center fires have a principal cause is this article[2], and while I'm…
Comment linking /datacenter-fire-frequency/
on “I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows”Submitted Examining and Learning from Complex Systems Failures as a story · 33 points
HN discussionThat's a very good point. For: I've seen a company very nearly destroyed by not having the skills to deal with a single disk failure in raid. Against: A Large Hosting Company we used couldn't read my simple instructions and lost a backup. BTW read the SLAs of your provider and my guess is you'll agree with what a lawyer who worked for us said - shite. Basically, while it was down our provider wouldn't charge us for…
Comment linking /cloud-slas-punish-not-compensate/
on “Jurassic Cloud”Submitted Managing server performance for power: a missed opportunity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reports of cloud decline have been greatly exaggerated as a story · 2 points
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