Everything's Coming Up Online

This is just an observation/question... and most have already thought about it but...

So, lots of traditional desktop software is going online... photo editors, backup and storage, sharing files, word processors, spreadsheets, CRM, calendaring, fundraising, databases, you name it, time tracking, invoicing. Online software and tools are getting better and better...

(Assumming security is not an issue for you) Here's my question... does your laptop or desktop or Mac experience more outages/downtime than your Internet connection service? What causes more downtime and for how long? If a machine isn't working, do you have another computer to use in a pinch? Do you have a backup Internet connection?

There are so many cool online tools but I see so many ISP outages, ironically for businesses, that it's hard to justify the move online. Of course you can have redundant Internet connections but that does add to the complexity of, and cost of a business IT infrastructure... hhhmmm...

Every business is different and no one config is best but it is interesting to think about...