In the past we’ve talked about using Social Media sites to communicate with your customers when your website goes down. We’ve touted the benefits of Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter.

In past weeks we’ve discussed a number of DDoS attacks that have taken websites down – websites that should have been protected from such things considering the nature of the sites.

We here at Alertra talk a lot about website uptime, website monitoring and what happens when websites go down.

We’ve discussed in past weeks that Anonymous has become what some would call the “Robin Hood” of the Internet, while others may call them advocators of vigilante Internet justice.

Within the pages of this blog we talk a lot about maximizing your website uptime and what to do when the inevitable downtime occurs. What many of our readers wonder is just how much downtime is acceptable.

Back in October we discussed how it is possible for your website to go down through no fault of your own. When things go awry at your hosting company, you either have backup hosting in place or Tumblr pages and other social media tools to work with or you are at the mercy of your site host to get things back up and running in a timely manner.

We’ve discussed in past posts that website downtime can and will cost your company money. The question is, just how much will your planned downtime cost you?

You’ve put a lot of work and money into your website. The goal is to pull in as much profit as possible.

In the era of the Internet, a website is one of a company’s most valuable assets.

Most of today’s business owners understand that the majority of business is conducted online.