ICloud Server Redundancy

There's very little information out there about how iCloud works behind the scenes. I hear about the giant datacenter in North Carolina, as well as others. I certainly expect data storage on RAID and networks and servers arranged so no single device or hardware failure should cause a problem. But what if something more catastrophic happens? A single natural disaster in North Carolina could render all kinds of local redundancy irrelevant. Does anyone know if we have any actual geographic diversity on our iCloud data?

I never said anything was anyone's fault. Try reading. Of course the servers should not be down for 2 days. Of course it should work properly. You think Apple planned it like that? But clearly there was a major problem that took considerably longer to fix than anyone, including Apple, expected. None of us here know what exactly went wrong. Perhaps most of us wouldn't even understand it if Apple described the problem in great detail. Fixing networks and servers is not as simple as fixing the tyre on a car.
These things happen. GoDaddy (one of the worlds largest webhosts) had an outage some days ago that took down milions of commercial and personal websites and email. No technology company is immune to such technical failures. Sometimes they take considerable time to identify the problem and further time to fix it.
If you are not using a free, consumer-level email service for business purposes, then my comment does not apply to you.
However, if you need an email service that gives guaranteed service levels, and guaranteed uptime, use one. There are plenty out there. iCloud is not that service.

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