Red-faced VESK scratches '100% uptime' claim after 2-day outage
Found on Channel Register on Monday, 05 September 2016
A failed hard disk in its Storage Access Network caused a “panic event” on 26 August, the business confirmed to customers early this week, taking down email services and certain instances hosted on the same platform.
VESK had previously gloated about the gilt-edged services provided. It told visitors to its website that customers had enjoyed 100 per cent uptime for the past 1,583 days.
A single failed disk caused a two day outage? It sounds like the past 1,583 days uptime where more based on pure luck than knowledge.