Embodiments described herein relate to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable mediums storing instructions for placing an application in an external environment such as a cloud or edge environment, when it is rendered unavailable on a local environment such as a local host. The application's instance is moved after a connection test reveals that the application, related applications, and/or underlying physical computing devices hosting the applications and/or their data, do not respond to the test within an acceptable level of performance. By placing the application instances in an external environment, the application(s) can continue to provide an adequate level of service to one or more users until the application can be restored to its better function local host.