

How Liquid Web Eliminated Downtime on 20,000 servers
Managed Web Hosting Provider with 30,000 customers rolled out KernelCare
and stopped a rebooting hassle
INDUSTRY
Shared Hosting
SERVER FLEET
20,000 Managed Servers
REGION
Worldwide
“As the Industry adopts KernelCare, it should eventually eliminate the concern of rebooting servers to apply security patches in most instances. The downtime that reboots cause is a disruption for customers, and nuisance for admins, that can be easily avoided with KernelCare. We’re moving closer to a time in which this type of disruption is no longer excusable.”
GOALS
To avoid downtime that server reboots cause when applying security updates.
OBSTACLES
Large server fleet, lots of moving partis in the server maintenance process,
RESULTS
KernelCare helps Liquid Web maintain updated kernels, and also do it in a seamless way without disrupting customer’s websites and applications.