New Posts For Thread: unplanned site outage 8 hours!!!!!!!!!!https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23512106/unplanned-site-outage-8-hoursMidnight till 8am. Many will not be aware. Would be very worrying if it happened during the day. I wouldn't know where the hell I was with bets/liabilities etc.Anyway the purpose of the post is to alert those who are were not aware.24/7 hardening costs money that BF aren't willing to spend.This is it in a nut shellhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability99.9% ("three nines") 8.76 hours The most they can possibly achieve this year with no more outages at all is 9.99% Theyhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23512106/unplanned-site-outage-8-hours?post_id=420123578#42012357824/7 hardening costs money that BF aren't willing to spend.This is it in a nut shellhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability99.9% ("three nines") 8.76 hours The most they can possibly achieve this year with no more outages at all is 9.99% TheySun, 31 Jan 2010 07:38:17 -0600ok thanks for the help :)https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23512106/unplanned-site-outage-8-hours?post_id=420123574#420123574ok thanks for the help :)Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:38:14 -0600i see your point mate, and thought about it. But that cant be their point of view. they are selling "the ability to trade markets" and when that fails, they fail to sell their product, which i already bought. in short, it was their fault i couldnt trhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23512106/unplanned-site-outage-8-hours?post_id=420123570#420123570i see your point mate, and thought about it. But that cant be their point of view. they are selling "the ability to trade markets" and when that fails, they fail to sell their product, which i already bought. in short, it was their fault i couldnt trSun, 31 Jan 2010 07:37:10 -0600No unfortunately not Soren. Guess you can kiss your 50 goodbye. Have lost money a couple of times too during errors, but it will often even itself out in the long run.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23512106/unplanned-site-outage-8-hours?post_id=420123566#420123566No unfortunately not Soren. Guess you can kiss your 50 goodbye. Have lost money a couple of times too during errors, but it will often even itself out in the long run.Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:36:47 -0600Soren24 31 Jan 14:33 i lost 50£ trying to trade when this happened.. will/shall they compensate for this? If you'd made money because of the outage, would you have given it back?https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23512106/unplanned-site-outage-8-hours?post_id=420123562#420123562Soren24 31 Jan 14:33 i lost 50£ trying to trade when this happened.. will/shall they compensate for this? If you'd made money because of the outage, would you have given it back?Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:35:19 -0600i lost 50£ trying to trade when this happened.. will/shall they compensate for this?https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23512106/unplanned-site-outage-8-hours?post_id=420123558#420123558i lost 50£ trying to trade when this happened.. will/shall they compensate for this?Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:33:58 -0600Still giving trouble ffs! Scrubbing the info is ludcirous.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23512106/unplanned-site-outage-8-hours?post_id=420123554#420123554Still giving trouble ffs! Scrubbing the info is ludcirous.Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:17:19 -0600I see that all information about the outage has already been scrubbed from the Service forum.I don't recall them being so keen to brush these things under the carpet in the past.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23512106/unplanned-site-outage-8-hours?post_id=420123550#420123550I see that all information about the outage has already been scrubbed from the Service forum.I don't recall them being so keen to brush these things under the carpet in the past.Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:12:38 -060024/7 hardening costs money that BF aren't willing to spend.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23512106/unplanned-site-outage-8-hours?post_id=420123546#42012354624/7 hardening costs money that BF aren't willing to spend.Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:07:33 -0600Quite a big one, presumably?https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/23512106/unplanned-site-outage-8-hours?post_id=420123530#420123530Quite a big one, presumably?Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:57:58 -0600