24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ

Thu Apr 16 08:34:01 UTC 2020

24x7 is way more common, but does leave ambiguity as to holiday coverage. (there are some 24x7 businesses that close for holidays).

24x7x365 is on the rise as a way to specify that you’re open holidays too.

End of the day, I’m not sure it matters which one you use.

Likely any Google search for 24x7 would return the superset {24x7,24x7x365} while a search for 24x7x365 would return the subset {24x7x365}.

IANASEOE, but I suspect that in terms of SEO and general search, you’re probably better off with 24x7x365.

Owen

> On Apr 16, 2020, at 01:25 , Mike Hale <eyeronic.design at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> No.  24x7x365 is fine.  Sheesh.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 10:10 PM Ben Cannon <ben at 6by7.net <mailto:ben at 6by7.net>> wrote:
> So I’m taking this thread for a total test-drive and we’re going down this random ally...
> 
> I call our NOC “24x7x365”  I hear that in my head as “twenty-four (hour) - BY - Seven (days a week) - BY - 365 (days a year, indicating we don’t close on any holidays).
> 
> Is that really not a thing?  I swear I’ve been hearing it as a term of art in the industry for 20 years.    Google has 1.42m results for 24x7x365 - but 72mil for 24x7.
> 
> Should I change my website or what?
> 
> Thanks for indulging me :)
> 
> -Ben.
> 
> 
> -Ben Cannon
> CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 
> ben at 6by7.net <mailto:ben at 6by7.net>
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 15, 2020, at 5:45 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org <mailto:rsk at gsp.org>> wrote:
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>> Your home page says that you have 24x7x365 support.
>> 
>> 	(Which is wrong, by the way.  It's either 24x7 or 24x365
>> 	or maybe 24x7x52 depending on what you're trying to express.
>> 	There is no such thing as 24x7x365.  But let's press on:)
> 
> (Rich’s excellent critique deleted for brevity)
>> ---rsk
>> 
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