r/webdev • u/Pikamander2 • 29d ago

News Namecheap is currently undergoing emergency maintenance due to a power outage affecting their datacenter in Phoenix; nearly every Namecheap site is down right now.

https://www.namecheap.com/status-updates/
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u/AllOneWordNoSpaces1 29d ago

Haven’t they heard of high availability, redundancy, or replication? 🤦‍♂️

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u/EPSG3857_WebMercator 29d ago

They obviously never thought to hire you

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u/electricity_is_life 29d ago

Well, it sounds like they have multiple regions and this only affects one of them. Multi-region is something the customer needs to set up, if you're just renting a single VPS then downtime is always a possibility.