Redundant Web Hosting for protection against a drop in services

When a part of our business is in the cloud, we have an online store that works well for us, etc., ie, generate a significant portion of our revenues in the web a short break in service activity can affect us significantly. So we now offer web hosting as redundant protection against a drop in services .

As much as the suppliers we ensure 99.90% availability, this means that throughout the year we will have about nine hours on our website will stop working . This average and does not include the controlled stoppages. For small businesses may be insignificant to others depending on the time when stoppages occur may be more or less severe.

Anyway if we face a denial of service attack type we will do little . Although in the case of SMEs, the ability to suffer, for the moment, this type of attack is very low. The web and online work has great benefits but also great drawbacks, so we must be aware of this inconvenience.

I think this type of service, and we carry a replica copy of our files to other facilities in our supplier may be of interest to a minority of companies , but in case you need more flexible or elastic redundant platforms are better demand solutions.

Especially not if we have compensated for this service contract price for the gain it gives us. It is true that in case of collapse of a facility can continue to work, but realistically what are the chances of this happening. We assume that service agreements with housing providers already covered such matters, so I'm not clear that most companies need this redundancy.