Announcing WP Engine Failover: Enterprise-Grade Uptime and Disaster Recovery

Unexpected outages can cost businesses thousands—if not millions—in lost revenue, productivity, and customer trust. When disaster strikes, your website needs to remain operational. 

That’s why we built WP Engine Failover, a new, enterprise-grade disaster recovery solution that ensures 99.99% uptime by seamlessly rerouting traffic to an alternate data center within minutes.

With WP Engine Failover, your business stays online—even in the face of critical infrastructure failures. No lost data. No customer interruptions. No surprises. Just seamless continuity.

Read on to learn how WP Engine Failover addresses downtime and ensures your business’ digital open sign is always set to “on.”

The problem: Downtime disrupts continuity

For businesses relying on their websites to drive revenue and customer engagement, even a few minutes of downtime can have a significant impact. 

Unfortunately, many companies struggle with:

• Complex disaster recovery setups: DIY failover solutions require extensive infrastructure, monitoring, and ongoing management.
• Slow recovery times: Traditional disaster recovery solutions often take hours to restore full functionality.
• Risk of data loss: Without a failover system in place, businesses risk losing valuable data between backups.
• Compliance and vendor requirements: Many industries require redundancy solutions to meet regulatory and security mandates.

Traditional backup solutions help restore lost data after a disaster, but they don’t prevent real-time data loss or the issues they can cause. 

WP Engine Failover goes beyond a backup to ensure optimal uptime by automatically rerouting traffic in the event of an interruption.

The solution: Enterprise-grade failover disaster response with WP Engine

WP Engine Failover is designed to eliminate downtime by transferring traffic to an alternate data center within minutes in the event of an outage. 

Built for mission-critical industries like eCommerce, finance, and media, it keeps your website operational, always.

Here’s how WP Engine Failover works:

• Automated failover: If your primary data center goes offline, traffic is automatically rerouted to a backup data center to ensure minimal disruption. Failover is built on WP Engine’s Azure infrastructure, providing near-instant recovery with an estimated RTO (Recovery Time Objective) of just 7 minutes.
• No data loss: With an RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of zero, your most recent data is always protected and restored in real time.
• Multi-zonal redundancy: Your site data is stored securely across multiple locations, protecting against localized failures and natural disasters.
• Hands-free management: WP Engine’s team handles the failover process automatically, so you can focus on your business instead of disaster recovery planning.

Why WP Engine Failover?

Unlike DIY disaster recovery solutions that require costly infrastructure, manual intervention, and ongoing maintenance, WP Engine Failover is a fully managed, automated solution that protects you against lost revenue, customers, and productivity due to unexpected outages.

This enterprise-grade failover solution ensures compliance with industry regulations and security standards while reducing potential downtime from hours to minutes, keeping your digital experiences seamless.

Failover enables compliance

While failover support for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plans is not typically required as an independent element of compliance for most industries, it is an essential component in fulfilling existing compliance objectives. 

For example, enterprise-grade failover solutions enable organizations to meet the requirements of FedRAMP and GovRAMP (formerly StateRAMP) frameworks. Both frameworks are based on NIST SP 800-53, which requires compliant websites to have alternate processing capabilities, secure data backups, contingency plans, and recovery testing. Failover makes this possible.

Other compliance standards, like SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001, require system resilience, security, and recoverability, which many organizations find difficult to achieve without a robust BCDR foundation. BCDR solutions like failover can strengthen operational resilience while helping organizations meet demanding security and availability standards through downtime reduction and secure data replication and recovery.

Failover serves as a crucial stepping stone to meeting compliance, even though it stands apart from the actual requirements themselves. WP Engine has made our failover option hassle-free, hands-free, and ready to work seamlessly on any environment hosted with us.

Stay ahead of the unexpected with WP Engine Failover

Outages happen, but they don’t have to cause extended downtime. Whether you’re running an eCommerce store, a financial platform, a media site, or any other type of digital experience, WP Engine Failover keeps your business online.

Want to learn more? Speak with a representative today to talk about your website’s potential uptime, performance, and resilience when paired with WP Engine Failover.