As counterpoint, I’ve seen banks down for extended periods of time, hours occasionally stretching to a day or two (TSB, LLoyds, Bank Of America, BankSimple [BBVA]). Downtime is a fact of life. Google, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft have had major cloud outages. GitLab nuked their production DB. Slack and Reddit are frequently down.

Unless it’s life critical (911, air traffic control), if it’s down its only going to hamper productivity, but it’ll be back eventually. Time to stretch and get a coffee, and if it’s all day, going home and we’ll start fresh tomorrow.

We’re not saving lives, we’re just building websites. Downtime isn’t shameful, it happens to all of us.