you should learn/know that there is such technology as 'power backup' and laptop PCs
and as for notice, they surely have home and relatives and friends, or even a public terminal from where they can send a message for the paying customers
and this besides the possibility of a cell-phone from which messages can be sent any time across the globe
sorry pal, but there is no excuse for not informing paying customers ASAP of service problems
This is not the first time this has happened...is Chip that cheap that he can't spend some of the money he is raking in on a good fail-over system? There is no excuse for downtime when it comes to real-time charting services imo.