A picture is worth a thousand words... On the 3rd of August 2009 Clickbank payment system was down for almost 3 hours. This is kind of a big deal since most customers have very short attention span and either buy immediately or don't buy at all. So if payment page is down you are losing sales. If you are PPC affiliate - you are losing money... If you look at this picture carefully you'll see that Clickbank Monitor spotted the failure 27 minutes earlier than Clickbank announced it (which they did 15 minutes after the failure started). Should you have been registered user of cb-monitor.com (which is currently FREE by the way) you would have been notified within a minute of when it happened.