Police in Salt Lake City say an employee of a mortgage company opened fire on a $100,000 server with a .45 caliber automatic, and then concocted a cover story that his gun had been stolen and used to shoot up the IT equipment.
How important are the number of "nines" in your site's uptime? In a world where getting things right 99 percent of the time is normally a win, 99 percent uptime is widely perceived as a failure. Case in point: Twitter's uptime for June.