[trhway]

>Take for example a few jobs ago when our servers went down because of a local internet outage.

having an option of your servers going down because of a local internet outage is a luxury your company had. As you correctly point out, a company with remote employees spread across timezones just wouldn't be able to allow themselves such a luxury, and to me it sounds like a good thing. It makes people and company think and work in a distributed fault tolerant way.

[jcadam]

Great point -- and that's something that never occurred to me :)