Here’s a snippet from a recent post on Matt Cutts’ blog.

I had to wait for PayPal to come back up to send some moolah. Every website has downtime now and then; (emphasis added) it’s just a bother when you want to send some money that second…

Sorry Matt but I emphatically disagree.  The entire Internet experience (and perhaps many business’ profitability) would be enhanced if the movers and shakers of the ‘net would just get off this “last century” attitude of accepting failure.  the technology is available to see to it that this does not happen, but as long as we are going to operate in the “failure is inevitable” mode we will get we we expect.

Especially for a huge money handling site like PayPal or a site that serves millions of users, like BlogSpot, perhaps), these unplanned outages should be a thing of the past.  real-time server mirroring combined with geographic diversity of the servers (to avoid single points of failure) are “nickel-dime” in relationship to the money at stake … but we accept excuses instead of progress.

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