Chuck brought up a good point.
WestHost's site advertises multiple data centers - in Seattle, Dallas and Washington, D.C. Follow the link for more information; you will see a map showing three data centers.
So why has this incident impacted so many websites?
And why did they not have a plan to simply transfer the impacted sites to another data center?
This morning I received an email from a gentleman who works in the IT department of a major university. More specifically...his job is IT security and disaster recovery.
He told me that this university has a backup site in another state in case of an emergency such as the WestHost fiasco.
I, for one, would love to know why WestHost could not/did not do this.
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