I don't agree with flagging such posts. As developers we can be on the losing end of these problems within our own products, and this site can be a useful hub

I don't agree with flagging such posts. As developers we can be on the losing end of these problems within our own products, and this site can be a useful hub for receiving information on how to technically handle these incidents. E.g. after a major DNS outage caused many people with Heroku websites to go down, developers on Hacker News were able to quickly share advice on how to get around it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9842302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9842302