Please stop with your distractions - I don't know why you continue to "educate" us about an obsolete T1 after finding out it was a joke, or continue talking about vague ISP "issues" that you don't specify, or power outages! Power outages? Is that the best you can come up with? Can you say UPS? Hellooo? Give me a break! And then a 1Gbit symmetrical connection wouldn't be enough for you!?!?
Let me help you focus. The only thing you talk about are vague, boggeyman negatives. (Are you catching the drift on why your remarks bother me? And what bothers me even more is that you were happy to leave your first comment at that!) So, let's really try to focus:
Again, any problem and the node requires 3-4 days to replay and will be down for this entire time.
Based on all your hypothetical threats which you make no effort to describe and less effort to recommend prevention methods, the node would have to do a 3-4 day reply (which, BTW, to my understanding, is being drastically reduced as we speak . . .).
RE: Hive API Node for under $750 - Hive can scale at very low cost.