Available
Because Downtime is Never Acceptable
Your application is only valuable if it is available.
Availability means your users can access your application when they need to, with no delays, no errors and no excuses. For many organisations, especially in fintech, availability is tied directly to revenue, reputation and regulatory compliance.
At Pipe Ten, we design for availability at every level of your infrastructure.
Why Availability Matters
- The average cost of IT downtime is £4,800 per minute for small to mid-sized businesses (IDC).
- 82% of companies have experienced unplanned downtime in the last three years (Siemens).
- In April 2025, a major UK bank suffered a three-hour online banking outage, preventing customers from accessing accounts and processing payments (BBC News).
- Cloudflare experienced a global disruption in February 2025, impacting thousands of websites and leading to a surge in reported downtime for major online platforms (The Register).
Downtime does not just damage trust. It halts transactions, triggers SLA penalties, and can lead to customer churn. We treat availability as a fundamental requirement, not an afterthought.
Pipe Ten’s Approach to Availability
Aligned with our WAD framework, we help ensure high availability through:
- Redundant Infrastructure: Multiple data centres, multiple public clouds, mirrored services, and failover-ready architecture
- Service Monitoring & Alerting: Proactive alerts for application, server, and service health
- Auto Healing Systems: Container restarts, autoscaling groups, and self-recovering services
- Load Balancing: Distributing traffic across multiple nodes for speed and resilience
- High Availability Clustering: Application-aware clusters for databases and critical services
- Application-Level Health Checks: Monitoring beyond the infrastructure layer
- Performance Monitoring: Using tools like Zabbix, Grafana, Cypress, Observium and bespoke software
- Service-Level Objectives (SLOs): Defined and measured with clients for full transparency
These solutions are designed to avoid single points of failure and ensure graceful recovery during hardware faults, traffic spikes, or platform updates.
Available for Fintech
For fintech platforms, availability is critical to:
- Avoid transaction failures or lost orders
- Maintain trust in high-assurance environments
- Comply with operational continuity regulations
- Prove reliability to regulators and partners
- Meet customer expectations for 24/7 service
- Support high transaction volumes and peak loads
- Enable rapid recovery from incidents
- Ensure data consistency and integrity across distributed systems
Whether it is deploying Always On Availability Groups for SQL databases, implementing auto-failover DNS, or monitoring for SSL expiries, we ensure availability is continuous, not conditional.
Get Started
If you are not testing for failure, you are preparing for downtime.
Start today by booking a FREE Availability Consultation with our technical team or downloading our Web Application Delivery (WAD) Framework to explore our full approach.
Available is more than uptime, it is peace of mind and the second step in becoming SAFER.