But even if the giants of IT spent all the money they have, could they truly guarantee 100% uptime?

For some reason, whenever I see their 100% uptime SLA, I imagine everyone in the cloud business shaking their heads. Data center managers need to pinpoint potential problem areas, then have tools and processes ready to go if something happens. If it slips below, 99.0%, then you get back 30%. The Business Insider says “. And downtime even happens to online giants. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft (leading cloud vendors) feel the same about the redundancy. [online] Business Insider.

At the close investigation, we found a 99.9% service uptime guarantee. He used a recent GitHub outage that happened during physical maintenance as an example.

In order to find out the average uptime of the web hosting industry, we purchased shared hosting plans before 2018 and started to monitor them via Pingdom. Such outages inevitably shake public confidence in the infrastructure that now largely powers the modern enterprise -- from workplace collaboration to logistics to customer engagement. The Enterprisers Project is an online publication and community focused on connecting CIOs and senior IT leaders with the "who, what, and how" of IT-driven business innovation. ,i#-MҵR��������� �2�I[!8���,&.

WHB does not provide any uptime guarantee per se. For those who never read SLAs, this basically says that if your business is hosting the infrastructure on Amazon, Google or Microsoft and suddenly everything goes dark for 4 hours, and this happens only once a year, you wouldn’t be able to do much, because that’s the SLA you as a customer agreed to during the sign-up process. At the end of the day, it comes down to the profitability of implementing a supporting additional infrastructure. Finally, there you have it – an official 100% uptime guarantee.” DreamHost guarantees 100% uptime. You can't prevent lightning strikes (such as the one that took down a Microsoft Azure data center in San Antonio in September) or zero-day malware attacks. National Academies Press. DigitalOcean is a cheap cloud hosting that promises 99.99% uptime which they have greatly succeeded in our test. Imagine being a cloud company that wants to improve the uptime improvement by 0.04% and go from 99.95% to 99.99%. The survey includes additional insights not

According to Board, S. S., & National Research Council (2009), “a solar storm of this magnitude occurring today would likely cause widespread problems for a modern and technology-dependent society.”. However, it only applies to their own servers and is not applicable for client errors. "Almost all failures reported or researched by Uptime Institute have happened before and are often well documented.". Amazon, Google, and Microsoft (leading cloud vendors) feel the same about the redundancy. But data center managers have to be prepared to see their perimeter defenses fail and have secondary levels of protection in place. I like the following quote by Albert Einstein: In my view, it essentially says, that is actually actively used can be 100% perfect. Who's investing the most in cloud? 211 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<80B5566EA4B39C429740D2A9609EB78E>]/Index[188 34]/Info 187 0 R/Length 115/Prev 860394/Root 189 0 R/Size 222/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream (2009). According to survey results released by the Uptime Institute this summer, nearly one-third of all data centers had an outage in the past year, up from 25 percent the year before. Providing data access from anywhere is the top reason for cloud adoption. Learn how and get the digital transformation Ebook: Teaching an elephant to dance. So we've highlighted a few studies that help tell the public and hybrid cloud story for 2018 and answer some relevant questions: Where does cloud land on a CIO's priorities list? While companies plan to migrate a larger share of their workloads to the cloud, they aren't abandoning on-premises computing. Even though you can find a statement claiming to strive for their best, there is no official uptime guarantee. However, their servers have been working very steadily, with the exception of one bigger outage (42 minutes). Those include malicious-traffi detection mechanisms, network defenses such as segmentation, and a least-privilege approach to access and communications. Shocking Statistics About Data Center Downtime. And backups work. %%EOF NameCheap offers one full day of service for every 1h that your server is down in a month.