None of that is an argument against small being more reliable. Rather it's an argument that the smaller you are the more important being distributed becomes whe

None of that is an argument against small being more reliable. Rather it's an argument that the smaller you are the more important being distributed becomes when managing mundane day to day failures. Even if a solar flare takes out an entire continent or two I think it's safe to say that the bittorrent network will still be running in some form. Can you be so certain about any given SaaS product?