Data Center Knowledge picked up on a New York Times article about Internet downtime and the reality of trying to provide 24/7/365 uptime for the worlds most popular, and most relied upon, websites and services.

They run through a recent list of outages affecting The Planet, HostDime, ICE, Netflix, YouTube, T-Mobile, Yahoo Stores, Rackspace, Alabanza, ValueWeb, and 365 Main that took sites down anywhere from several hours to several days.

An interesting read to say the least.