I think a big part of the reason is some failures are mis-categorized:
W 09-23 03:25PM 18.756
Request was aborted after waiting too long to attempt to service your
request. This may happen sporadically when the App Engine serving
cluster is under unexpectedly high or uneven load. If you see this
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+1
please make status page more reflective of the real situation.
On Sep 24, 5:16 am, esilver wrote:
> Righ now my app is 100% down and has been down now for about 45
> minutes,http://appengine.google.comis down for me as well, and yet
> this page:
>
> http://code.google.com/status/appengine
>
>
