When you are evaluating a data center, power, security, and networking usually top the list, but infrastructure redundancy deserves just as much attention. Redundancy means backup components are in place, so if a networking card, power supply, or Ethernet cable fails, your business does not feel it, since a secondary source takes over. Some people call this high availability instead, since it increases how reliably you can reach your resources. The measures we run internally at Vault Networks are what let us hit our 99.999% uptime SLA.
How Vault Networks Builds in Infrastructure Redundancy
We achieve infrastructure redundancy by making sure your server has everything it needs, including backup power and network paths. On the networking side, that means two Ethernet cables running to two separate routers from two separate network cards connecting to our backbone ISP providers. From there, our BGP-based network redundancy connects you to 11-plus ISPs so your server stays online. For power, we run two power cables from your server to two separate PDU appliances, each with its own reboot bar. We also build in redundancy for cooling, monitoring the data center and adding cooling capacity whenever temperatures drift from our standard.
Why Infrastructure Redundancy Matters for Uptime
Infrastructure redundancy is a best practice for maximum uptime, whether your servers are dedicated or collocated. Cables go bad and power supplies blow fuses, and while our technical team stays on top of these issues, the safer approach is a second power supply or Ethernet cable already in place and ready to take over, so your business never feels the disruption.
Our vnCloud platform takes infrastructure redundancy a step further, running multiple cloud infrastructures so that if one has an issue, your workload shifts to another seamlessly. vnCloud servers also work well as backup capacity for your existing infrastructure, spinning up when your primary servers go down for maintenance. The best practice is redundant networking and power on your primary server, with a backup server in the cloud ready to go if you ever need it.
Vault Networks builds data centers around the highest availability possible. Find out more about our colocation, dedicated, and cloud server solutions by emailing sales@vaultnetworks.com, or calling us at (305) 735-8098 option 2.