Adding a second provider
At some point the whole provider becomes the single point of failure. Spreading across two is how you remove it — and it is not free.
What a second provider actually buys
It protects against the failures a second machine in the same building does not: a network-wide event, a routing problem, a provider-level outage. If your availability target cannot tolerate any of those, one provider is the ceiling you are hitting.
The cost is complexity, not just rent
Two of everything means data has to stay in sync, failover has to be decided and tested, and your DNS failover or anycast has to actually move traffic. That operational weight is the real price — budget for it before you commit.
Doing it well
Keep the two sides genuinely independent — different networks, not the same upstream — and rehearse the failover like any other part of disaster recovery. If you would rather stay with us but add a second location, multiple locations and multihoming cover the in-house routes. We are happy to be either your primary or your standby.
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