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Disaster recovery planning for resilient websites
Disaster recovery planning for a website can often be overlooked. Businesses generally think about natural disasters but fail to recognise that the more common disasters can be malicious attacks, security breaches, hardware failures and data corruption. Having a resilient disaster recovery plan and infrastructure in place means your online revenue and brand will remain intact.
The disaster recovery hosting infrastructure will be dictated by what is acceptable to your business. For example, do you back up data on a daily or a weekly basis, take full or incremental back ups? Disaster recovery solutions do not need to be complicated or consist of a complete replication of your hosting platform. The solution does, however, need to be provided by a hosting company that has more than one datacentre to provide true site recovery. It also perfect for planned downtime activities such as maintenance, upgrades and patching. Here are some examples:
- Single back up server in second datacentre
- Back up servers at each datacentre
- DNRS based automatic failover services
Whether you need to build disaster recovery into an existing solution or are starting from scratch with your hosting requirements, why not contact us for a no obligation chat today?
