Four million days of website downtime in March 2007

Pingdom, the company known to help alert you when your site is down, continues to put out great blog posts about uptime statistics. This one is a doozy!

They claim that there has been over 11,614 years of website downtime in March alone! Check their blog for the math.

Here is a snippit:

Even though 0.27% of downtime may seem like a relatively small number, it becomes huge when you look at the whole picture, i.e. the entire internet. Even a small improvement in overall uptime of websites on the internet would have a big impact overall.

It’s hard to put a price tag on downtime. For some websites it simply doesn’t matter, and for some it’s a disaster. However, 4.2 million days of downtime in just a month should leave a significant financial mark. Over a year that would mean a total of more than 50 million days of downtime.

How long was your site down in March? I believe CN was up 100% as Pingdom did not alert me even once during the month.