[andrelaszlo]

I'm curious, I definitely get the panic. How much does a 30 minute outage cost you, vs how much would it cost to build a solution with some kind of standby that you could fail over to in scenarios like this?

It could be worth it, but if you do the math and it seems like it's not worth it, it could perhaps give you some equanimity the next time it happens?

[codegeek]

Honestly, the impact may be less monetary and more reputation but as a B2B SAAS provider, I agree that it may not have been that dramatic as I made it sound for the 25 mins of downtime. It is just that we never had a downtime this long, EVER in 8+ years of business so I hit the panic button fast. 25 mins seemed like 25 hours if you ask me :).