Namecheap Outage Exposes a Bigger Question: Why Couldn’t 5,000 Servers Simply Fail Over?

A major cooling failure at a Phoenix data center knocked portions of Namecheap’s infrastructure offline on August 13, affecting thousands of servers and raising an obvious question from customers: how can a company this large lose so many services because cooling failed at one facility? Namecheap’s CEO responded publicly One notable aspect of the incident … Read more