The answer is no: Media Temple (MT) is pretty reliable. When I say pretty, here are some numbers from Pingdom, via their new free service:

Checks with downtime
Check name Uptime Downtime Outages Response time
Wordpress 99.55% 3h 14m 52s 10 672 ms

This meant approximately 200 visitors would have missed out on my website–not a bad amount of downtime at all. However, this is just one month, and we’ll have to see if anything particularly disastrous shall happen in the future. I’ll keep you all posted!

Update: here are stats for August:

Check name Uptime Downtime Outages Response time
Wordpress 99.92% 0h 34m 57s 6 905 ms

Update: here are stats for September:

Check name Uptime Downtime Outages Response time
Wordpress 99.77% 1h 34m 36s 14 981 ms

Update: here are stats for October:

Check name Uptime Downtime Outages Response time
Wordpress 99.50% 3h 39m 28s 15 582 ms

So far YTD my uptime is 99.69%, according to Pingdom.

Yahoo 360 isn’t a real social network, but it had great uptime

The best of these is Yahoo 360, with 99.9938% uptime over the last two months, followed by Myspace (99.969%), Facebook (99.8822%), Linked In (99.7024%), and finally Windows Live (99.4482%). MySpace was only down for 25m, while MSN Live Spaces had an embarrassing 7hrs 25m of downtime.

Now you don’t have to wait for blogs to post about when the Apple store is down, you can just check their awesome service. Apple is interesting in that they take their online store offline to update it with new products; in that regard, it’s cutely old-fashioned. This year, changes in the Apple store brought us the new iPhones, the Macbook Air, and new Shuffle prices.

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@bloglines.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/2.2.5-dev (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.5-dev OpenSSL/0.9.7a Server at www.bloglines.com Port 80

This kind of error is interesting because while Bloglines’ home page is up and working, their service is not, and that’s something very hard for monitoring tools like Pingdom to monitor without the cooperation of the web service. If there’s ever a standard created for an open web 2.0 service, an interface by which one can query which parts of it are up and down should factor in. It could be as simple as a ping, or as complex as a list of components and statuses. Just fire off a request to api.example.com/ping and get back “up” or “down.” You could use api.example.com/uptime for information about uptime and api.example.com/status for more detailed information.

Reports coming in on MacRumors that EDGE is down on iPhones… I can confirm, I haven’t been able to get any EDGE data all morning. I’m in Tucson, AZ. Users from Philadelphia, LA, Sacramento, and Washington have all reported the same thing. iPhone users – can you connect and get data via EDGE? (Simple test is to turn WiFi off, and open the weather widget – does it refresh?).

Another post suggests that there’s been almost half a day of downtime:

I have the cingular 8525, and both the EDGE/3G connectivity was down since morning today(07/02) in the san francisco bay area. I had called tech support and he made me do all sorts of things like take the battery out and put it back blah, before telling me that he had to make sure I haven’t done something to the settings, and that there is a “nationwide edge outage”. anyhoo, it seems to be back up now (about 4:00pm on the west coast).

When people are saying things like “Edge is down in Honolulu Hawaii since 9:45 am Hawaii this morning.” you have to wonder if AT&T is the right partner for Apple. I say not.