When steemit goes down, when is a good time to PANIC? 2 minutes, 2 days, 2 weeks, or ? WORD OF ADVICE

Tonight steemit had some trouble for a little while. People started to panic. Don't do that, and I will explain why..

Steemit.com is akin to the same problems as Microsoft, Google, big banks, any large corporation.

When you exist on the public internet, technical problems will happen. That's the nature of having your application out there.

When steemit went down for a few hours, I didn't panic, but some people did. Why?

Most people are use to steemit.com being up all the time. It is a COMPLEX website, that has viral participation, everyday, 24x7, and growing by the thousands all the time.

So when Steemit BETA has an issue, instead of wait it out, people begin to panic.

• Should you panic about the outage after 2 mins, 2 days, or 2 weeks?

Well any human trying to fix something as big and complex than this needs a little more than 2 minutes.

What about 2 hours?

• Sure... 2 hours of downtime should help you to reverse engineer the problem and begin creating and tweaking a new fix for the situation in the best case scenario.

What about 2 days

• This situation, where steemit was unavailable for 2 days makes a lot more sense to me. They would have had enough time to observe, monitor, and discuss the situation and try some alternative methods (workarounds) to fix it.

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HEY! @intelliguy, are you telling me that steemit.com has to be down for 2 full days before I panic?

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Panic, in general, is never a good idea. But yes, if steemit.com goes down for 2 minutes, or 2 hours, I wouldn't even care unless 2 days had passed. This is the nature of the public internet.

Consider the fact that steemit is actually viral 24x7 by participation. Thousands of users are commenting, upvoting, and posting new content all the time.

I'd expect downtimes to show up 10-15 times a year. Yet, somehow, these intelligent developers manage to escape that and keep the system running quite well.

When steemit goes down, when is a good time to PANIC? 2 minutes, 2 days, 2 weeks, or ?

I'd start to panic after two full days of downtime, and not fully panic until 2 weeks lapsed.

...as I am writing this to you now. Steemit is back online (just as I thought they would).. When there is an issue, they work hard at dealing with it.

Want to know what I was doing during the outage?

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• I was in steemit.chat socializing with other steemians.

• I never worried whether or not steemit.com would fix their issue... I just waited

• Next, I got bored with chat and started spending some time watching youtube videos

Was I concerned? (yes, a little)
Did I panic (not once, no)

So if you are the panicky type, there is good investors who are very interested in buying cheap SBD or STEEM as the price falls. Weak minded people will worry and sell what they have to them.

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Unless steemit.com is offline for 2 solid weeks, I don't worry. It will come back up again and even stronger each time.