What Happened
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Labor Day Weekend OutageHalf of the SaaS client’s small data center failed and their existing hosting provider was not helping.
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Immediate StabilizationWe identified a firewall routing problem and restored connectivity, but then the remaining environment also went down.
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Systemic Issues RevealedIt became clear that the initial outage was not isolated, it was structural. The problem was not one device or event — it was a broader infrastructure design issue that had built up over time.
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Response & RedesignProtected Harbor’s response team rebuilt healthy hardware to our standards, studied the VM estate in depth, redesigned deployments around the application, improved resilience, and added HA where needed.
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Long-Term ScaleThe platform grew from 20 virtual machines to more than 2,100 servers in an environment we designed, built, and manage.
20 → 2,100+
The environment scaled dramatically after being redesigned for reliability and growth.
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Cost reduction potential often appears when environments are redesigned and opaque billing is eliminated.
“I sleep better at night”
The CEO’s description of the result says more than any uptime statistic.
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Zero unplanned outages since migration
Post-redesign system reliability improved 42%.
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