Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Users will be extremely unhappy when we are not able to continue to provide our service.
Users will be somewhat unhappy if all of Wikipedia goes down and never comes back. Users will be *much more* unhappy if Wikipedia continues to operate but is extremely slow, unreliable, and often down.
Why would a node that is close by be dead ??
Because people tend to turn off their own computers whenever they want to. And because computers sometimes crash, or Internet connections go down.
NB when our customers find the argument "it's cheaper for us" not a good one, they have to realise that they are not paying customers.
(Note that I didn't use the word "customer".)
Timwi