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Uptime and downtime with 99.88 % SLA

2025-11-27: It's always DNS, isn't it? I built uptime monitoring service uptime mongers to monitor the DNS security issues that standard services ignore: parent zone delegation changes, stale DNSSEC signatures, expired RRSIGs. Other check types: PING, HTTP, TOR, TCP, PUSH.

SLA & Uptime Calculator

How much downtime corresponds to your SLA?

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(enter SLA level and hit the <enter> key)

SLA level of 99.88 % uptime results in the following periods of allowed downtime:

Daily 1m 44s
Weekly 12m 5.8s
Monthly 52m 36s
Quarterly 2h 37m 47s
Yearly 10h 31m 8.3s

Direct link to the page with these results: uptime.is/99.88

The SLA calculations assume a requirement of continuous uptime (i.e. 24/7 all year long) with additional approximations as described in the source. uptime.is was originally implemented in newLISP, which had powered uptime and downtime calculations for more than a decade.

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