Dell.com suffers 40 minute outage

I came across a number of twitter posts yesterday evening that suggested that Dell.com, like GMail, suffered an outage on Tuesday evening (EST).

Techcrunch confirmed today that Dell.com did in fact go down for approximately 30-4o minutes. Wondering what the opportunity cost is for such an outage?

Let’s see:

• Dell did $12.76B in revenues last quarter
• Assume that this will be this quarter’s revenues; that’s $5.9M of revenue / hour
• Site was down for 30-40 minutes, that’s up to $3.0-$4.0M in lost revenue. Would have figured this to be more, but certainly significant.