Two Weeks Later: MobileMe's Uptime Calculated (96%)

Of course offering the stats based on a period you set, is not nearly as interesting as the stats on Mobile Me's history, in my case I'd say that figure could be as low as 50-60% uptime.

96% is awful for this service!
And I personally believe some individuals will have it worse than that.

In general we would consider a consumer-oriented service such as Mobile Me to have an uptime of at least 98% which would effectively half the downtime that Mobile Me currently experiences.

Why such low expectations? Computers don't need rests. Apple doesn't need to work on a tight budget. What aspect of the Internet / Apple's hosting software requires 2% downtime?

Well I'm definitely not moving in their direction for anything - even a free account. :rolleyes:

Why such low expectations? Computers don't need rests. Apple doesn't need to work on a tight budget. What aspect of the Internet / Apple's hosting software requires 2% downtime?

Scheduled maintenance to perform updates, etc. Typically business-grade systems have above 99% uptime. I just think it's a little presumptuous to expect that of something targeted at consumers (kind of like how server-grade hard disks have higher mean time between failures than consumer-grade hard disks).

That being said, 96% is too low.

Well I missed a whole week on top of that 13.5 hours. I'd like to see what that percentage would look like if it applied to the whole month. I can't complain though, Apple shut me up with a free years mobileme.

First off, I am holding on to hope....

MobileMe has not worked out for me at all. My set up is Macbook, MM, iPhone, PC (vista/Outlook 2007 in corporate setting). My goal was to sync my work contact and calendars with my personal info and have them all on my iPhone. The mac side seems to work after a couple of weeks of flubs. At first, calendars on mac did not sync at all, then OK. Then contacts duplicated, then only partial sync (about 20% synced). Then only names synced with no e-mail addresses, no phone numbers. That appears to be working ..... for now.

PC syncing has never worked well. I understand that the corporate setting may be impacting me (proxies, firewalls, etc.), but I understood from the presentation Steve Jobs gave earlier in the year, that I would be able to do what I want. Sync my work stuff with my other stuff.... on my iPhone. As of yesterday afternoon, my work PC won't even log into MobileMe.

I am glad MobileMe is working for most and I am still holding on to hope. Let the updates begin.

Well I missed a whole week on top of that 13.5 hours. I'd like to see what that percentage would look like if it applied to the whole month. I can't complain though, Apple shut me up with a free years mobileme.

Yeah, obviously if you take into account the extended outage at the beginning the percentage goes WAY down. But I think that taking that into account doesn't give an accurate description of the current state of MobileMe. The article is supposed to look at the reliability after the rocky transition finally finished, i.e. 2 weeks ago.

interesting... gmail was out for about that long yesterday as well...

I think that Mobile Me will have a higher uptime in the future, when they get over their starting hurdle. Currently the downtime calculated over apples initial stat is going to make the numbers look low

I wonder why Apple gave up on the MobileMe Status blog. They promised an update last week that never came.