Gmail down, I not affected.

Gmail went down on Tuesday at 0900 GMT as reported. So it seems that timing is somewhere night or midnight here in the equator. So it went down. Is that even suppose to be shocking? Which email service doesn't go down once in a while? From my years of email usage, there is no forever up email services. Everyone have their downtime. If it goes down, it will be up again unless it happen due to outside factors like undersea cable issues. So if you are using Gmail for some real time mail exchanging maybe you should also start to have an alternate email in case of problems. At least I don't need to check my mails every minutes or so I am not even aware of it went down.