If every virtual server you run is in one data center, a single outage at that location takes everything down. Network issues, power problems, hardware failures, even a bad software update on a hypervisor can affect your entire stack. The fix is straightforward: don’t run everything in one place.
Six independent regions
We operate six data centers: Las Vegas, Dallas, Ashburn (Virginia), Santa Clara, Amsterdam, and Singapore. Each one is independently powered, independently networked, and uses its own hardware. An outage in Las Vegas doesn’t affect Amsterdam. A network issue in Singapore doesn’t touch Dallas.
By deploying your VPS hosting across two or more of these regions, you build in redundancy. If your primary region has a problem, traffic can fail over to the secondary.
How to set up multi-region VPS hosting
The simplest approach is a primary-secondary setup. Run your main application on a Linux VPS or Windows VPS in one region. Run a standby copy in a different region. Set up database replication between them so both have current data. Use DNS-based failover or a health-checking load balancer to automatically route traffic to the healthy region.
For more advanced setups, you can run active-active across two regions, where both serve traffic simultaneously. This is more complex to set up (you need to handle data consistency), but it gives you load distribution and zero-downtime failover.
Using multiple providers
You don’t have to use only one provider. Some customers run their primary VPS with us and keep a standby at another provider as a completely independent fallback. The important thing is that your eggs aren’t all in one basket: one provider, one data center, one network.
We’ve also had customers use a dedicated server in one region for heavy database workloads and VPS hosting in another region for web front-ends, connected over a VPN. Mixing infrastructure types across regions gives you both performance and resilience.
Planning your layout
If you’re not sure which regions to use, think about where your users are and what your tolerance for downtime is. For US-focused applications, pairing Ashburn (East Coast) with Las Vegas or Dallas (Central/West) covers the country. For global applications, combining Amsterdam and Singapore covers Europe and Asia.
Check our data center regions or contact our team to plan a multi-region setup for your VPS hosting or dedicated server infrastructure.