{"id":1567,"date":"2017-03-16T23:55:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T04:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2018-10-01T00:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T05:25:22","slug":"are-server-outages-2017s-biggest-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/2017\/03\/are-server-outages-2017s-biggest-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Server Outages Biggest Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not even 4 <\/span>months into the year and already a major Amazon Web Services Outage<\/a> has taken a large chunk of the internet offline, another outage left Microsoft Services like Skype, Office 365, and OneDrive down for 16+ hours<\/a>, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the looming threat<\/a> of the largest DDoS attacks the world has seen.<\/p>\n

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In this article, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take an uncharacteristically critical look at the web hosting industry. Most hosts aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t willing to dive into these details, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important that we are honest with ourselves as an industry so that we can advance and offer better products and services. So, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dive into it, starting with a rather uncomfortable metric:<\/p>\n

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Been No Significant Improvement<\/h2>\n

You may not know this, but the majority of outages aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t at the server level. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at the data center level. Even cloud hosting with all its promises of increased reliability is still capable of suffering from a data center level outage. In fact, cloud hosts often offer their services from a single data center, resulting in the same common outages as any other server type.<\/p>\n

Now I know what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re thinking: aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there backup systems in place that should prevent data center level outages? Yes, but they often fail themselves! This is due to one simple fact: age. The average age of datacenters in the United States is 9 years, but Gartner suggests that any datacenter older than 7 years may be obsolete. This is because UPS, switches, and generators may fail, causing an entire data center to go down.<\/p>\n

So what if a data center completely renovates every 5 years upgrading all systems to the newest, most reliable options? Well, the data center still wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be fully safe from a data center level outage. You may have remembered that AWS had a major outage earlier this year, and it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t caused by hardware. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was an employee who wrote a simple command incorrectly.<\/p>\n

One human mistake caused many of the internet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest sites to go down. Amazon isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t alone in this either. Outages caused by human error occur all the time. It could be as simple as tripping over a power cord!<\/p>\n

How can we step up and prevent these outages?<\/h2>\n

The answer is simple: multiple datacenters. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve recently announced a new product, Geo-redundant cloud hosting, and we believe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the next big thing in web hosting. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re calling it disaster avoidance because it prevents:<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00b7        Router Failure<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00b7        Switch Failure<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00b7        ISP Outage<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00b7        Power Outages<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00b7        Server Hardware Failures<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00b7        Security Attacks(DDOS)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00b7        Failed Software or Firmware Upgrades<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00b7        Natural Disasters<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00b7        Human Errors<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00b7        And many more<\/span><\/p>\n

It works by allowing automatic failover between data centers of mission-critical services including applications, databases, and websites to multiple remote data centers. The end result? Zero detectable downtime.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Geo-Redundant Server Solutions by clicking here.]]<\/a><\/p>\n

ServerPronto<\/a> offers the best affordable and secure hosting service in all dedicated server packages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not even 4 months into the year and already a major Amazon Web Services Outage has taken a large chunk of the internet offline, another outage left Microsoft Services like Skype, Office 365, and OneDrive down for 16+ hours, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the looming threat of the largest DDoS attacks the world has seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,120,8,9,86,111,227,201,134],"tags":[123,17,112,22,18],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cloud-hosting","category-dedicated-server-2","category-dedicated-server-best-practices","category-dedicated-server-security","category-server-security","category-web-hosting-2","category-web-hosting-news","category-web-servers","category-website-hosting-2","tag-cloud","tag-dedicated-server","tag-hosting","tag-server","tag-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","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=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}