I dont understand how you can have 8 hours downtime ( from the miner point of view )
When this network failed happened i got notification from flypool and from my watchdog, i investigated, took me 10 minutes to switch back all my rigs on ewbf and to change the server from europe to asia.
In that day i made more coins then usual because a lot of miners didnt react to flypool europe server failure and the difficulty dropped.
The next day i switched back to dstm's miner.

If you mine and want uptime USE WATCHDOGS  SCRIPTS dont blame this on the mining software.