From my perspective, I find it interesting when a high profile website goes down for an extended period of time. The cost of downtime for a retailer like Target

From my perspective, I find it interesting when a high profile website goes down for an extended period of time. The cost of downtime for a retailer like Target is high so I would assume that they put proportionately high resources in place to protect against it. This is not a blogger's WordPress site that went down due to a viral post. So to me it's newsworthy. Some HN readers may be trying to manage hosting resources for their online businesses, so I was hoping it would offer a little perspective to them.