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A realistic uptime ceiling depends heavily on whether you're in private beta or already revenue-critical.
RELIABILITY TARGET SETTER
Reliability Target Setter
Set practical initial targets for availability, recovery time, and failure handling, and get a realism score checking your targets fit an early MVP rather than an enterprise SLA.
- Uses your inputs in a transparent calculation
- Instant result with practical next steps
- No signup required
Planning guidance only. Validate important decisions with customer evidence and your delivery team.
YOUR INPUTS
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Complete every field. The result updates only when you choose Calculate.
How it works
Set uptime and recovery targets
Uptime percentage translates directly into an allowed downtime budget per month — the tool shows you that number.
List the failure scenarios you'll handle
A reliability target means little without naming what actually breaks and how the product should degrade.
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Frequently asked questions
What uptime target should an early MVP set?
99-99.5% is realistic for a pre-launch or early beta product on managed infrastructure — that's roughly 3.5-7 hours of allowed downtime a month. Higher targets usually require on-call staffing you may not have yet.
Why does 99.9% vs 99.99% matter so much?
The gap is large in practice: 99.9% allows about 43 minutes of downtime a month, 99.99% allows about 4 minutes. The latter requires real redundancy and automated failover.
What's a reasonable recovery time target?
For most early-stage products, 30-60 minutes with a documented manual restart runbook is achievable without dedicated on-call infrastructure.
Is this tool giving me a formal SLA?
No — it's a planning aid for internal targets. A customer-facing SLA is a legal commitment and should be reviewed separately once you're ready to offer one.
How many failure scenarios should I plan for?
Start with 2-4 of the most likely ones (a key dependency going down, a bad deploy, a database blip) rather than trying to enumerate everything up front.
How We Compare
| Feature | MVPHub | Atlassian Statuspage | PagerDuty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stage-appropriate target realism scoring | Included | Not included | Not included |
| Free to use | Included | Not included | Not included |
| No account or setup required | Included | Not included | Not included |
| Downtime-budget calculation from uptime % | Included | Limited | Not included |
Statuspage and PagerDuty are operational tools for communicating and responding to real incidents. MVPHub helps you set sensible reliability targets before you build the infrastructure those tools would monitor.
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