I absolutely find people who "just don't care" revolting. Every single celebrity weblog is fake, not because they've "sold out"... but because one day long ago they stopped caring about the crap they put up and
Notes for a new topic:
know your SLA, most of them suck
99% uptime = 15 min outage total per day
99.9% uptime = a good benchmark for the standard
everyone should offer at least 3 'nines'
latency: use traceroute and pathping! most places garuntee a level of latency within their network, better ones should garuntee latency within their top-tier upstream/peers
maximum latency: at what level is a latent packet considered dead for uptime?
"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker