The Engineering Side in 2024: A Look Back, Taking Stock
LATER THIS WEEK the work on the datacentre may resume. Until then, however, we expect things to remain calm and smooth. We've paid upfront for hosting for the entire year. That covers everything.
2024 was the most reliable year for our IRC network. The downtimes were incurred by system updates that necessitated a reboot (for the kernel) and some network-related work (e.g. updating routers) and in spite of having just one server for IRC we've kept decent uptime and increased our reach over the months:
When it comes to HTTP/S and Gemini Protocol, we probably had our best year ever in turn of total uptime (or conversely, downtime). In spite of system updates and reboots (for updates to take full effect) we probably had a total of no more than 5 hours of site/capsule being inaccessible. The year had 366 days (leap year), i.e. 8,784 hours. 5 hours are about 0.057% of that. So uptime was somewhere around 99.95%.
Things were different when we used PHP (in 2023) and databases could suddenly have problems for all sorts of reasons, not counting DDoS attacks (external factor). █