I dont understand how you can have 8 hours downtime ( from the miner point of view )
Agree. At first I recieved a message from programmatic wathdog that connection is lost. Second - tryed to switch to another pool on dstm, had no luck. At third, I have a VNC Client on my phone, so when I saw that fypool in EU is down and dstm is unable to connect, I quickly switched EWBF to US server. It took me 10 mins to restore mining from my mobile phone, being in the ofiice at that time.