Does Flickr Have Any Downtime At All?

[~ The 34 Year Buzz!!]

All servers have to eventually be re-booted.
Does Flickr use server clusters which offer literally no downtime for your photos, or will they occasionally be unavailable?

Thank you

EDIT: I'm not asking about network outages or disasters. Under normal conditions do they use clusters with "100% uptime?"

EDIT #2:
I found an answer. They try to use clustered servers, but have had some "famous" downtime.

Flakey Flickr goes down. Again

"... But it turns out that that was wrong and the ill-paired failure of two different drives within an hour of each other and some not-as-advertised raid controller flakiness in one of the database masters meant that we had to take the site down to reconfigure. Since it is down, we are running some power maintenance as well and plugging various servers into other slots. Should be back up well before 8pm pacific." -source


When using Flickr do you feel confident your photos will be seen by your visitors?

 

[gjvblack]

If these type of sites go down, it is usually rare or scheduled. I wouldn't trust other sites for hosting my pictures even if its 1 or 2. When you have a site and the other site linking to your picture is down, your site will be lagged by that other site. So I would not use Flickr to depend on many pictures.

 

[~ The 34 Year Buzz!!]

^^^

Good advice, I was thinking of saving bandwidth, but that is so cheap these days.