Practical Guide: Building Highly Available IT Infrastructure
April 15, 2026
When “Firefighting” Becomes the Norm: The Real Struggle of IT High Availability in SMBs At an 80-person precision R&D company in Beijing, a Friday afternoon emergency once left the IT manager overwhelmed: the router in the server room housing the core R&D servers suddenly crashed, leaving the entire staff unable to access the code repository; at the same time, Finance reported that network fluctuations had caused ERP data uploads to fail, directly affecting month-end closing. Even more worrying was the
