Yes, this is blatant bragging. But realistically, this is more a function of my ISP (Verizon FiOS) and my electricity supplier (PECO) than my abilities. To be fair, it is more contingent upon no power failures than anything else. I do have a UPS, but that’s only good for about 10-20 minutes.
For August 2021, my home network had 100% uptime, according to RIPE.
Subject: Monthly probe report for #[redacted] From: RIPE Atlas (no reply) <[redacted]> To: dan@example.org Reply-To: RIPE Atlas (no reply) <[redacted]> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 01:45:02 -0000 Message-ID: <163046070233.29974.7346344794041697139@worker2.atlas.ripe.net> X-RIPE-Signature: b7d297f3462a5391c8f90e217ab85ce687cf8450cc00f8721e8029ab8e42ada5 Dear Dan Langille, This is your monthly availability report for probe [redacted] (no description). Calculation interval : 2021-08-01 00:00:00 - 2021-09-01 00:00:00 Total Connected Time : 31d 00:00 Total Disconnected Time : 0d 00:00 Total Availability : 100.00% +------------------+---------------------+---------------+-----------------------+ | Disconnected for | Connected at (UTC) | Connected for | Disconnected at (UTC) | +------------------+---------------------+---------------+-----------------------+ | - | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 | 31d 00:00 | Still connected | +------------------+---------------------+---------------+-----------------------+ This is an automatically generated email from RIPE Atlas. It was sent to you because you asked to receive reports about probe availability. If you would like to change this, or disable this reporting altogether, please go to /[redacted]/, click the "Edit" button next to "Notifications", and use the form there to define what you want. Kind regards, RIPE Atlas Team
I’ve been hosting this device since 2013-05-29 (just over 8 years at the time of writing). The All Time uptime since then is 7y 348d 9h 32m, or about 96.22%. That downtime will include one 24hr service outage, a few multi-day power cuts, and at least two rack relocations. If you want to do the math to figure out exactly how much downtime that is, I will happily include your math here. (thank you)
RIPE provides these probes free of charge. They hook up to a USB power source. In return for hosting you can earn credits to use with RIPE. I have 33,155,331 credits. With them I can create my own measurements for my personal use. I’m using them to check ping times to the FreshPorts host and to check DNS latency.
I started my measurements in 2018-03-07 (over 5 years I had built up some credits, and I more than enough to continue for at least one more year).
I meant to write more about what you can monitor and the types of data you can obtain. I’m out of time today. Here is one such set of data:
