The Internet Cloud has taken a beating today. Many hosting companies who use cloud based hosting services are down today. There is a widespread reliance on Amazon Web Services for hosting a lot of web sites all around the world. See this article from the Associated Press.
Amazon failure takes down all kinds of websites across Internet.
Cloud computing has become very popular. The idea of just purchasing the space and resources that you need and hosting it somewhere in a cloud sounds great. But what happens when there is a central point of failure and hours of downtime?
IDP owns and maintains all of our own web hosting hardware. We have physical dell servers in our rack at Netstandard data center in Kansas City. That is a good thing today! The cloud burst! Be happy if your web site is hosted with IDP. IDP’s servers are still up and running fine so if your website is hosted with IDP it will not be down, unlike the sites that are hosted through Amazon Web Services Cloud that are down due to the failure.
Monte is one of the original founders of the company in 2003. Monte is a creative talent with 20 years experience in web design and information technology. He works with clients on a daily basis to develop, maintain and market their web sites. Monte is also in charge of the web hosting environment and server administration duties for the company.