1. If people don't like the downtime and want there to be less downtime and still want to play on the server, they should donate.
2. Coming here and complaining / making a big deal about the downtime isn't productive. Donating would be infinitely more productive.
3. Without downtime people wouldn't get to discover totally awesome stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFCSXr6qnv4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCCkfjPm0o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Nz8p3EP7A
And:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzKtPezPsqE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw