In my country, in almost any company, bank, even major telecommunication companies you'll find that their systems are down at least very frequently.
I'm currently standing in front of a Vodafone booth (they provide mobile communication and are an ISP), their system is down and the operator said to wait an hour.

What's more horrid about this is that these systems are built by fellow software engineers in my country. It sure says a lot about us, unfortunately.