June, 2021 FACEBOOK suffered a 14-hour blackout on Wednesday 13th March 2019 … resulting in an estimated $89.6 million in lost revenue, and causing a 2 percent tumble in FACEBOOK share prices. – The most expensive website downtime periods in history. Status Cake Team (2020)
June, 2021 What’s the cost of downtime to you? Average sales-per-day = Yearly sales ÷ 365 Average sales-per-minute = Average sales-per-day ÷ 86400 Downtime cost = Minutes of downtime × Average sales-per-minute
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