Uptime Report for My Live Windows Azure Web Site: August 2013 = 99.71%

My Android MiniPCs and TVBoxes blog runs WordPress on WebMatrix with Super Cache in Windows Azure Web Site (WAWS) Shared (Preview) tier in Microsoft’s West U.S. (Bay Area) data center and ClearDB’s MySQL database (Venus plan). Service Level Agreements aren’t applicable to the Web Services’ Shared tier; only sites in the Standard tier qualify for the 99.9% uptime SLA.

• Running a Shared Preview WAWS costs ~US$10/month plus MySQL charges
• Running a Standard tier instance would cost ~US$75/month plus MySQL charges

I use Windows Live Writer to author posts that provide technical details of low-cost MiniPCs with HDMI outputs running Android JellyBean 4.1+, as well as Google’s new Chromecast device. The site emphases high-definition 1080p video recording and rendition.

The site commenced operation on 4/25/2013. To improve response time, I implemented WordPress Super Cache on May 15, 2013. I moved the sites diagnostic logs from the file system to Windows Azure blobs on 9/7/2013, as reported in my Storing the Android MiniPCs Site’s Log Files in Windows Azure Blobs post.

Here’s Pingdom’s summary report for August 2013:

Pingdom’s graphical Uptime report (first page in Downtime mode) for August 2013:

Note: Downtime is exaggerated because Pindom’s timing resolution is five minutes.

And here’s their Response Time report for the same period:

The Windows Azure Management Portal displays resource utilization for a maximum period of one prior week:

The 5,369 maximum requests per hour on 9/8/2013 is a bit above prior August 2013 weeks.

I plan to report and log uptime values monthly with pages similar to OakLeaf Systems’ Uptime Report for my Live OakLeaf Systems Azure Table Services Sample Project posts, which has more that two full years of uptime and response time data as of June 2013.

Month	Year	Uptime	Downtime	Outages	Response Time
August	2013	99.71%	02:10:00	24	1,786 ms
July	2013	99.37%	04:40:00	45	2,002 ms
June	2013	99.34%	04:45:00	30	2,431 ms
May	2013	99.58%	03:05:00	32	2,706 ms

Note: The usual 99.9% uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA) applies only to Windows Azure Web Sites running in the Standard tier.

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