Ironic as it may seem, a good portion of Microsoft and Amazon's cloud offerings available from Dublin, Ireland were taken offline recently due to a lightning strike.
Have a read of this article for more info.
Now, if you had data on these servers, your business would be offline until they got it restored. Was this your office, we could restore a backup onto a temporary server in around an hour or two and have you up and running from an alternate location.
So, it's your call - cloud services that you have no control over or locally hosted servers that we can restore from backups relatively easily?
**Update** According to a TechEye article, lightning didn't take out the transformer in question, however there is currently no explanation as to why the transformer caused the issues. Amazon was out for less than a second whilst Microsoft was out for a number of hours. (Thanks to Robert Crane for bringing this additional article to my attention.)
Regards,
The Outspoken Wookie
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