Or did you forget to pay the hosting fee for December?
Which is it?
Wow, what a surprise. One of the board’s resident tumors immediately jumps the administration’s shit. Fucking crybaby.
Chillax dude, stuff breaks.
Does it have to be on a weekly basis, though?
And also a surprise: one of the board’s resident apologists comes into rescue the administration.
No, you’re right. Systems go down all day all the time. It’s perfectly excusable. WHAT was I thinking?
First time that has happened to me since the upgrade. It made the day a little longer at work, but otherwise, no biggie.
I’m sorry Mommy. I’ll never do it again. Please don’t make me go in the dark place anymore…
You’re a tool. Check Zotti’s “pit rules suspended” thread to see just what kind of an apologist I am.
I’m in IT. I know systems and stability better than you. And you’re a moron.
Suck my taint, you drooling turd.
I appreciated the break. Some of you mother fuckers work my damn nerves.
Nah.
Hmm. So your stuff goes down for 8 hours at a time? Funny, in my data center, we have things called Service Level Agreements. We have to maintain 99.999% up time or we start paying clients back. But we always seem to make 100%.
Oh forget it. Here’s language you might understand. I can’t print. Can you fix it?
What’s a taint? Is that help desk lingo?
But…but…they have cookies
Funny, on the SDMB, there is no such expectation. I don’t recall any Service Level Agreement when I registered, nor do I recall any expectation of being paid back any part of the membership fee if a certain level is not maintained.
Shut the fuck up and quit whining.
Are there “Service Level Agreements” in magazine subscriptions, to ensure that they actually send me all the magazines to which I’ve subscribed? Or is it perfectly reasonable if they miss a month here and there, and to call them on it would be “whining?”
This wasn’t the end of the world for me, by any stretch of the imagination. But it’s ridiculous that Ed can say things like how he wants this to be profitable, and yet these problems happen at least once a week, on some scale.
You guys are hysterical.
I imagine there are such things spelled out somewhere. I don’t subscribe to any magazines, so I can’t be more helpful there, but I can’t imagine there existing a subscription agreement where they don’t spell out their obligation.
That would seem to be Ed’s problem to deal with.
Hang on, the SDMB is going down “at least” once a week? That’s funny, because I log in pretty much daily, and this is the first time I’ve seen the boards go down like that in months and months. They must be specifically timing the server crashes around my posting habits. Which is mighty good service, if you ask me. I didn’t even have to pay extra for it!
Once a week. At least. On some scale.
Ohhhkaayyy.
Glad you disdained exaggeration about the world ending for you.
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Not that it matters at all, but your question made me curious. I chose People magazine at random, and their website spells out what you can expect:
Similarly, I perused the SDMB Registration Agreement, and found no expection of service level posted. To me, that means I can expect the SDMB to be up anywhere from 0-100% of the time. In fact, even without written service level expectations, I note that when there’s a major board outage, it’s not uncommon for the administration to extend a subscriber’s expiration for the applicable amount of time. Or did you just want to quibble over your lost, what, 6 hours?
Real men type in hex code! With checksums at the end of each line.
Lumpy, fomer Commodore 64 user