By Amy Mutual

On June 7, 2010, a mass Denver power outage caused over 31,000 businesses and residents to be without power for the night as a result of an explosion at a Denver substation. The data center for Instant Software, the nation's leading provider of vacation rental software, was located in the heart of the affected area and is happy to report their customers and hosting services experienced no interruption at all during this emergency.

Instant Software's data center houses the servers for industry-leading technology such as ISILink, the vacation rental industry's only Global Distribution System. The San Francisco power outages which brought down Web giants, including Craigslist, TypePad, Technorati, and USAToday, the Seattle data center fire which brought down Bing Travel and Escapia over 4th of July weekend last year, and last week's BlueHost outage in Utah which caused the silence of thousands of bloggers have made consumers and website owners painfully aware of the importance of secure server facilities equipped with multiple server redundancy options in addition to the intricate advancements in security.

Processor's article Web Site Disaster Recovery Strategy explains, "Building redundancies into your Web site’s database is technically complex but an option worth exploring if your Web server’s databases are mission-critical and linked to revenue generation."

Even with the security of having its servers stay up during an emergency like the Denver power outage, Instant Software is still increasing its server capacity with a planned upgrade later this month. Instant Software CEO Dave Hopcroft said, "With our recent expansion in our data and hosted services, we want to make sure our customers experience the maximum uptime available. We currently have a recorded uptime of 99.99%, and it is crucial in the Vacation Rental industry that we maintain that for our clients."