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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
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Subject: Two 9s reliability?
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 15:31:37 +0000
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It seems that collectively** the UK banks have had more than 33 days of 
downtime within two years, I make that under "two 9s" rather than "five 9s"

<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd3yzx3xgvo>



[**] yeah, sure it's not correct to just add up downtime across banks, 
but several of them have had downtime simultaneously ...