[tracker1]

That's because people like to complain... the reality is stuff happens, systems go down, and life tends to go on.

Yeah, if your building full of employees can't work because the internet is down, and the secondary is also down, then that's kind of crappy, and you may be paying people to twiddle their thumbs... much short of that, it's kind of the cost of doing business...

There are redundancy options for a lot of things... If you're using only a single host provider for your infrastructure, and management scoffs at creating redundant, and under-utilized systems... it's not as "mission critical" as people think/say.