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Old 10-18-2010, 04:44 PM  
pentae
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Originally Posted by rowan View Post
If a couple of days of downtime loses you $60k why don't you have a duplicated server (or servers) at another host?
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Originally Posted by AdultKing View Post
Given the low cost of servers these days, you'd think this would be obvious wouldn't you ?

This is a good time for everyone to reflect on what would happen if their host went up in a puff of smoke and take steps to ensure they have some redundancy in their operation at all mission critical levels.
Clearly I thought fully managed hosting with RAID's and an extra $100 a month to have the site backed up daily on-site was enough. Nobody expects the entire 1000-server wide network to be destroyed by hackers.

We also had an offsite backup locally but its only done monthly and the data is useless.

Hindsight is always 20/20
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