Oh yeah I did observe that but couldn't bother making the distinction. In my head, that's the worst case for a decent portion of users (2-5% depending on where

Oh yeah I did observe that but couldn't bother making the distinction. In my head, that's the worst case for a decent portion of users (2-5% depending on where your users predominantly live and other demographics) so I consider that to be a 24 hr outage. Your approach definitely sounds sane, would encourage others to do the same rather than following the article from the get go.