It says in the article that "In 2007, only 3 of the top 20 websites were able to achieve 5 nines or 99.999% uptime." Among the top 3 was Myspace. Which is funny because you need traffic to worry about Uptimes...
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How likely is it that this sphere of water actually collided with our Earth billions of years ago? What is the possibility of even more such "water meteoroids" flying around nearby galaxies?
Can someone explain what exactly he meant by "throttling the google bot"?
Apart from the comments seen here, just a small bit of advice from me: Fix the color of your ordered list. I noticed that it's gray for "li" in general, and white for "#splash ol li", but its still gray in Chrome for Ubuntu.
Strange how nobody here has mentioned http://clixpy.com
Although it's more strange that the site's down atm.
Strangely, I can never read the articles on alistapart. I find them to have a very 'boring' personality.
I actually see them being quite successful tbh. At least for a while until everyone gets used to them and starts ignoring them like it always happens.
And if you really get stuck, try removing vowels and repeating some letters
And out of those, how many are parked?
It actually should. Probably put FBI out of business too.
Apparently, Facebook does not have any humans.
Can't believe there isn't one for BB already. Good Job!
Great idea! But I think you meant hot "off" the press.
I always wondered how these were created...
#3 is actually the main issue, in my opinion.