{"id":1559,"date":"2017-03-02T02:02:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T07:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2018-10-01T00:26:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T05:26:46","slug":"web-hosting-news-report-march-2017-aws-outage-disaster-avoidance-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/2017\/03\/web-hosting-news-report-march-2017-aws-outage-disaster-avoidance-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Hosting News Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Web Hosting News Report, your roundup of last month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top web hosting news stories all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know about:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>1st &#8211; The day Amazon S3 Storage Stood Still<\/h2>\n<p>By now you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve probably<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/02\/28\/amazon-aws-s3-outage-is-breaking-things-for-a-lot-of-websites-and-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> heard that Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s S3 storage service went down in its Northern Virginia data center<\/a> for the better part of 4 hours yesterday, and took parts of a bunch of prominent websites and services with it.<\/p>\n<p>These types of outages are bound to happen from time to time, at least with the way things are currently set up. Our next news story details how a new technology is emerging which could prevent as much as 81% of outages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/01\/the-day-amazon-s3-storage-stood-still\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about the Amazon outage here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>2nd &#8211; A Little Known Technology Could Have Prevented the Amazon Web Services Outage<\/h2>\n<p>What if data center level outages never happened again? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a question that sounds too good to be true, but BlazeIP, an emerging technology company, is promising the solution to over 81% of all outages including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UPS system failures<\/li>\n<li>Water, heat or CRAC failure<\/li>\n<li>Weather-related outages<\/li>\n<li>Generator failure<\/li>\n<li>IT equipment failure<\/li>\n<li>And more\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@psostre\/a-little-known-technology-could-have-prevented-the-amazon-web-services-outage-yesterday-9e420e134ba6#.iwhyhzl96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about their simple solution here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>3rd &#8211; Verizon, Yahoo Cut Merger Price by $350 Million After Hacks<\/h2>\n<p>After reports surfaced of security breaches that put the data of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhir.com\/web-hosting-news\/stolen-yahoo-data-includes-government-employee-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thousands including government employees<\/a> at risk, the Yahoo Verizon merger has been discounted. The $350 million discount is just one of the consequences of the security breach. And is a stern reminder for other businesses of the cost of such hacks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhir.com\/web-hosting-news\/verizon-yahoo-cut-merger-price-by-350-million-after-hacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about the price reduction here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>4th &#8211; Most Hackers Break in Within Six Hours<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking of hacks, a recent survey of 70 professional hackers and penetration testers, titled The Black Report, uncovered some disturbing facts including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>60% of hackers take a maximum of just six hours to compromise a target<\/li>\n<li>40% said phishing was their favorite method to get into a system<\/li>\n<li>Exfiltration of data took 20% of them less than two hours, another 29% took anything from two to six hours to get the goods out<\/li>\n<li>Only 2% of the hackers found anti-virus software an obstruction to compromising systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.knowbe4.com\/cyberheistnews-vol-7-9-survey-most-hackers-break-in-within-six-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See more of the survey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s results here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>5th &#8211; How to Get a Data Center Job at Google<\/h2>\n<p>Data Center Knowledge provides in-depth advice for those looking to join the data center team at Google. The article discusses the mix of skills, cognitive ability, and personality that Google is looking for in each of their data center team members and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a must read for those looking for a data center job at any large web host.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhir.com\/web-hosting-news\/how-to-get-a-data-center-job-at-google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Web Hosting News Report, your roundup of last month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top web hosting news stories all in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-web-hosting-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}