In a survey of DNS Made Easy clients, it was found that guests DNS Failover and monitoring system recorded more than half a billion dollars of potentially lost revenues from Q1 2016. It was found that on average customers lost $ 2,500 per hour during the hosting downtime .
over a hundred Made Easy DNS clients were interviewed who had all been using failover. We asked customers to share the average loss of income related to the hosting service, based on the experiences they had had before the implementation of the changeover. customers surveyed ranged from small businesses to large corporations with large companies claiming to have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars due to a single failure.
DNS Made Easy was then able to extrapolate that number and apply it to the number of customers who have used the changeover in the first quarter. The numbers were astounding, according to DNS Made Easy, the engineers found that cumulatively customers had saved $ 525 million in revenue. This number does not account for the potential loss of income on the basis of loss of customer confidence and other potential long-term effects of a breakdown.
"DNS Failover is not only to fail traffic to IP. It becomes essentially useless without supervision, because if the IP address of backup is also down, then your site still shot, "said Steven Job, President of DNS Made Easy . "It must be associated with the monitoring system, which checks first make sure that the IP address of backup is online and operational, then keeps an eye on a primary user IP after traffic was switched. this means that once the original IP is back online, traffic will automatically fail back to the primary IP. "
the study also found that in Q1 2016 failover services DNS Made Easy acted in response to detected IP addresses culled more than 315,000 times. the stops associated vary from as little as a minute for more than eight hours. in total, DNS Made Easy failover service 4375 days were able to avoid arrest.
"Too many people think that DNS services are managed for high-risk industries such as gambling sites or gambling, however the effect outages all industries and companies regardless of size or risk of the customer, "added M .. Job . Failures occur more often due to internal errors and configuration issues rather than attacks.
Originally launched in 02, DNS Made Easy services have grown to manage hundreds of thousands of customer domains receiving over 30 billion queries per day.
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