Downtime becoming more critical

 There's an interesting article in the New York Times that contends that with the increasing everday use of the Web, site downtime is becoming more critical.

Mentioned is the fact that Amazon's recent two-hour outage may hace cost $1 million an hour in lost sales. And twitter.com is famous for being down,

Also, fun Web site mentioned, downforeveryoneorjustme.com where you can check how widespread a site outage is.