10/15/2026
A two-hour ISP outage and a two-hour gap before anyone realizes a server is encrypted are not the same event with different durations. One costs a morning of interrupted work. The other is the front end of a recovery that runs for weeks. The cause determines the cost far more than the clock does, and once you rank causes by what they actually cost, your spending priority becomes obvious.
https://www.askbts.com/blog/cost-of-downtime-by-cause