On an unrelated note, I'm curious to know which company this is that hires you out? I'm guessing SAIC is the current client and not the parent company (or am I looking at the wrong LinkedIn profile!)
Regardless of that, it still makes no sense to time-constrict a websites uptime. It's not as if websites run on manual labour! (well, it takes some to create one)
The irony is that a site that says "someone needs to come in and turn me on" must already be turned on. They've already written an app that has 100% uptime, they just use their uptime to claim the system is down.
Looks like the perfect solution to backup all my photos. Considering 100 GB of photos, that's still just 100 * 0.01 * 12 = $12 a year! I'm sold on this!