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The End of Hard Drive Failures
The End of Hard Drive Failures
Posted By: Support Admin On: 17 Aug 2009 06:13 PM
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mirahost is implementing a new server hardware solution to eliminate the effects of hard drive failures.
Having your website online and available 24 hours a day is our sole mission at mirahost. In the last few months we have had a series of hard drive failures fighting our ability to provide the impeccable server uptime that we have been providing for nearly 10 years. Hard drive failures are a guaranteed event given the demanding and relentless environment they are placed in. Having to serve information at a moments notice to tens of thousands of people all around the world is enough to make anyones head spin. But it shouldn't result in unexpected downtime or service failure.
We have fallen from our 99.99% uptime, which we have held since November of 1999. And now it is time to get back up.
We are moving to a system that will eliminate the effect of a hard drive failure. How? We are taking 4 individual hard drives per server and mounting them as one physical drive that constantly mirrors and replicates the data across each of the 4 drives. This system can sustain 2 simultaneous hard drive failures and it will keep running until 3 drives fail. This sounds complicated, but what it means for you is simple. It means that when the inevitable hard drive failure arises, you wont ever notice.
On our new system, when a hard drive fails, we will simply replace it and service will be uninterrupted. The server will keep going. Your website will keep going. And our service uptime will climb back up.
We look forward to continuing our mission of keeping your website online 24 hours a day and we appreciate the opportunity you have given us to serve you.
Sterling Ross
Web Systems Director
mirahost - Design, Develop, Host - your online reflection
http://www.mirahost.com
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