Yesterday’s widespread internet outage sent shockwaves through the digital economy. Major cloud regions faltered, global content delivery networks buckled, and even Fortune 500 companies, organizations with multi-billion-dollar infrastructures, experienced hours of downtime, costing the world billions in lost productivity and revenue.
Ask the Egghead did not.
While much of the web blinked out of existence, every single one of our client sites stayed online, fast, and stable. Zero downtime. Zero disruption. Zero panic.
This wasn’t luck. It was engineering.
Ask the Egghead’s hosting and maintenance strategy was built from the ground up to prevent exactly this kind of failure. Our web servers are distributed across Amazon AWS East and Hetzner’s global cloud infrastructure, and our systems are intelligently load-balanced between them. When one network hiccups, the other automatically absorbs the traffic, maintaining uptime and performance without human intervention.
In yesterday’s chaos, this approach performed flawlessly. While single-provider architectures around the world scrambled to recover, our clients’ websites served visitors as if nothing had happened. It was, quite literally, business as usual.
Redundancy Isn’t a Buzzword
The internet is a fragile thing, millions of moving parts, each depending on someone else’s reliability. Most hosting solutions rely on a single data center or even a single cloud provider. When that provider goes down, so does everything built on top of it.
Ask the Egghead made a different choice. We designed our hosting environment with redundancy at every layer:
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Multiple cloud providers, geographically distributed.
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Real-time monitoring and automated failover routing.
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Daily performance audits and nightly backups across regions.
That means when AWS East experiences a regional failure, as it did yesterday, our systems seamlessly reroute to our Hetzner cloud cluster. Visitors never see an error message, and organizations we serve never lose a minute of uptime.
For the nonprofits, public agencies, and mission-driven organizations that depend on us, that reliability isn’t just a technical achievement—it’s a service promise.
Resilience Is a Philosophy
Ask the Egghead’s guiding principle has always been resilience. It’s embedded in how we design, code, and host. Our clients rely on us not only to make beautiful, accessible, and compliant WordPress websites but to keep them operational under any circumstance.
Downtime is more than an inconvenience; it can disrupt fundraising campaigns, interrupt student admissions portals, or stall vital public health communications. When systems fail, communities feel it. That’s why we invest so deeply in architecture that anticipates failure and keeps going anyway.
Our engineering team continuously tests disaster recovery scenarios and reviews global infrastructure trends. Redundancy, version control, and automatic scaling aren’t optional extras; they’re part of every Ask the Egghead hosting plan. Yesterday’s global outage simply proved that the system works.
A Quiet Victory in a Loud Failure
While major brands scrambled to explain their downtime to investors and customers, our clients kept publishing, engaging, and connecting. Sites loaded instantly. Transactions processed. Data stayed secure.
We didn’t just dodge a bullet; we demonstrated the real value of proactive, thoughtful engineering. The world’s biggest players may have the largest budgets, but true reliability comes from smart design and relentless attention to detail.
At Ask the Egghead, we’re proud that our clients never noticed the outage because that’s exactly how it’s supposed to be. When the web wobbles, we don’t.
Ask the Egghead, Inc.
Modern WordPress development and hosting for public-sector, nonprofit, and mission-driven organizations.
