Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: >> Could you stop with the absurd comparisons? One is normal maintenance >> > and the other is (extreme) disaster recovery which are in no way >> > comparable. > But downtime is downtime. Customers don't care about its reason, do > they?..
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