Switched from a single ISP to a multihomed setup last year - what a difference

For the last 8 years I was running our small office on a single fiber connection from Comcast, 500 down 50 up. We had one outage in July 2023 that lasted 4 hours during a client demo and I lost a $12k contract over it. So I added a secondary ISP from a local provider, 200 down symmetrical, and set up BGP with our firewall. Now if one goes down the traffic shifts in under 30 seconds. Has anyone else made the jump to multihoming and seen a real business impact from it?

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jake_dixon28d ago

Read a study last year that said businesses with multi-homing cut revenue loss from outages by like 80%. Makes sense after what happened to you.

colesanchez28d ago

Honestly I was the same way, always thought it was overkill until I saw that 80% number myself. That study totally flipped my view on multi-homing being worth the hassle.