Kruser in for Jack asks the question, what recourse do economies and subscribers have when overarching internet systems go down, disallowing connections and disrupting any reboot attempts. James Mason, the Kentucky Technado, answers that question, citing diversification in 3 options for running servers and applications on cloud systems to keep providers online. Downdetector.com and isitdownrightnow.com are websites that can give information on the size and breadth of outages.