It's expensive to run things like that. Multiple "9"s are significantly more expensive to engineer than, say, 95% uptime. In general, the correct amount of all

It's expensive to run things like that. Multiple "9"s are significantly more expensive to engineer than, say, 95% uptime. In general, the correct amount of allowable downtime is when losses due to downtime are greater than the cost of increasing availability (which depends on the system). Should we raise taxes to increase government website availability? Not sure there's a clear cut case and it would definitely depend on each specific website and what utility it provides