…A UPS — uninterruptible power supply — protects your equipment from power outages and ensures that drives and VMs shut down cleanly rather than getting cut off mid-operation. File corruption from an unclean…
…You still need to monitor drive health, configure notifications, keep DSM updated, test backups, and make sure the NAS shuts down safely during a power outage. How to Configure Data Scrubbing How…
…While STaaS providers often have robust security due to the scale of their operations, organizations must still carefully vet their security practices. Moreover, the potential for provider outages makes hybrid backups and…
…Rather than relying entirely on whatever DNS configuration my ISP router provided, I started using reputable public DNS providers and configured backup servers. If one DNS provider becomes unavailable or starts responding…
…Crane said PocketOS’s car rental customers turned up to collect vehicles, only to find the businesses locked out of the software that keeps the operation ticking along. Crane posted a long…
Since its original implementation in the Linux kernel in 2018, Pressure Stall Information (PSI) has provided users with the high-fidelity signals needed to identify resource saturation before it becomes an outage…
…incompatibilities, and rehearsing upgrade drills to avoid outages across environments. As you add clusters, regions, and services, each one becomes another place where configuration can drift, components can fall out of support…
…We understand the impact these outages have had on your teams, your workflows, and your confidence in our platform. Here, we’ll unpack what’s been causing these incidents and what we…
…Suppose a MySQL outage occurs, which causes GitHub to be unable to serve release data from repositories. To resolve the incident, we need to roll out a configuration change to the stateful…
…And just as you’d expect, I’ve configured a bunch of automations for them. But considering all the outages in my backwater town, it’s not uncommon for the low-priority…