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Jake Fellows

Jake Fellows is an Associate Product Manager for Liquid Web's Managed Hosting products and services. He has over 10 years experience involving several fields of the technology industry including hosting, healthcare, and IT system architecture. On his time off, he can be found in front of some form of screen enjoying movies, video games and researching into one of his many technical side projects.

What Is Fault Tolerance and Why It Differs From High Availability

"Fault tolerance” and “high availability” are not the same thing. Without the high availability of a server connection, fault tolerance is a moot function.
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What are the Most Common Causes of Website Downtime?

Minimizing downtime is critical to your website’s reputation and the reputation of your business. Learn to understand why your site might go offline.
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What is DRBD?

Implementing a Linux DRBD can be highly complex, but enables High Availability systems that can save businesses money. Find out how DRBD works.
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How to Intelligently Invest in High Availability

Find out the 7 ways you can invest in your infrastructure to make it high availability, guard against failure, and most importantly, keep your site online.
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Recovering Your Website From a Catastrophic Failure

A look at how to build a disaster recovery plan, and then how to follow that plan to recover your website from a catastrophic failure.
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What Happens When There’s a Catastrophic Failure in Your Infrastructure

A deep dive into the nuances of what happens when an automatic failover occurs within your web hosting infrastructure, and how to prevent a data disaster.
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An Introduction to Load Balancing

An introduction to load balancing, including why load balancing is important to you and a look at how the technology works.
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The Importance of Considering CapEx vs. OpEx

Find out more about the basics of capex, or capital expenditures, and opex, or operating expenditures, and how it relates to IT infrastructure and agility.
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IT Agility… Buzzword or Meaningful Process?

IT agility is the ability to maintain your systems and processes in a flexible way that enables you to shift quickly as needed with the market.
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