Website uptime

I should have less problems with my website going down now that I have installed "ddclient" to automatically update my dns listing when my IP address changes. I think I finally got things working now, so I would be surprised if there is more than a few hours of downtime on future IP address changes. I thought it would be a big pain to install, but with ubuntu, you can just "apt-get install ddclient" and it installs and configures the whole thing for you. Yum and apt-get make Linux manageable for the rest of us.

My friends who work for web companies like to talk about the 5 9's. They want web pages to be up all 99.999% of the time (hence 5 9's) which I'm told works out to about a minute or two of downtime a year. I may be lucky to get 5 7's with my site. I'd like to think that the low cost of downtime makes it a lot more acceptable for me to be down 1/4th of the time, but I shall aim higher as I guilt more of my friends into reading this on a more consistent basis.