Are you ready for the worst?
The last days we have been watching Rita closing in on Texas and we have been worried about tradebit as a platform. (We have been more worried about our friends there, but that is not the topic of this posting!)
Will the provider keep us running? What could happen and what would be the results of a total blackout of service?
If you depend on your online business 24×7x365 and you can not afford a total redundant setup with 2 different locations, watchdog software, etc., you want to make sure your stuff is online and available. To make our life a bit easier, we backuped everything, right before the storm hit houston and we have been monitoring the server during the weekend (stuff like that ALWAYS happens on weekends) and we are glad that we had no downtime at all.
Nevertheless it has been a wake-up call. How long would it take to fire this platfom up again in a backup location? What steps are needed to be 100% up and running again?
These were the questions we tried to answer ourselves on sunday. We think it would have been 24 hours until we would have been back in business after a total blow out. Not bad, but still we do not know for sure and we have been increasing our backup cycles to a 8 hour window.
Watching our provider doing an excellent job on preventing downtime was a good lesson, too! So, if you really need your stuff to run, develop some failover plans, right now!
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