> until there's 99.9% uptime for a year
And three nines is still 45mn of downtime per month.
And three nines is still 45mn of downtime per month.
SLA's commonly agree to 99.9% (and I've dealt with some picky clients), though 99.99% would be better, it's an acceptable amount. Servers break, people need to deal with it when they do, and we aren't all robots.