{"id":191,"date":"2010-11-11T05:36:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T05:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hostduplex.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2023-03-25T01:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T01:28:00","slug":"gates-and-guard-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/gates-and-guard-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Gates and Guard Dogs: Safeguarding Your Data the Right Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We talked earlier about the importance of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/what-is-redundancy-and-why-is-it-important\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">redundancy<\/a><\/strong>. Naturally, an equally critical concern is <strong>security, <\/strong>both of the data itself and the servers that host it. After all, if you choose the wrong web hosting provider, your e-commerce site might end up stored in their basement or garage.<\/p>\n<p>Host Duplex\u00a0<strong>spares no expense<\/strong> when it comes to protection.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.steadfast.net\/blog\/chicago-colocation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steadfast<\/a>&#8216;s Chicago <strong>data center<\/strong> houses the majority of our servers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equinix.com\/data-centers\/americas-colocation\/united-states-colocation\/chicago-data-centers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Equinix <\/a>building,\u00a0renowned throughout the industry as a fortress to be reckoned with. (Just getting <em>into <\/em>the building requires a background check, for starters.) There, each <strong>server<\/strong> has two power supplies, each with its own feed, <strong>battery backup<\/strong>, and <strong>diesel generator<\/strong> capable of running each machine for hours. Beyond even that, Steadfast has a contract with a local fuel provider to bring in extra diesel fuel immediately should any major outage ever occur. Not to be outdone, we have our own large stock of parts stored at our facility, ready to remedy any hardware issues at a moment&#8217;s notice.<\/p>\n<p>On the software side of the occasion, our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/what-every-client-has-the-right-to-expect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">automated monitoring system <\/a>keeps a constant watch for exploits, vulnerabilities, and any suspicious behavior, keeping our\u00a0live staff alert around the clock. Our <strong>management service<\/strong>, should a client choose to make use of it, also installs and configures the client&#8217;s <strong>firewalls<\/strong>, while at the same time <strong>optimizing server performance<\/strong>, running <strong>updates<\/strong>, and performing weekly checks across all systems. (Clients always have the option of installing and configuring their own firewalls, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>Together with some of the industry&#8217;s brightest minds and strongest facilities, Host Duplex ensures that your data is as safe and rock-solid as it possibly can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Together with some of the industry&#8217;s brightest minds and strongest facilities, Host Duplex ensures that your data is as safe and rock-solid as it possibly can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,38],"tags":[37,39],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-web-hosting-industry","tag-redundancy","tag-security","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/beware-of-dog.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13935,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/13935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}