for a particular back-up host to store zipped files of the existing sites as
part of a disaster recovery plan.
In this way you can make the switch in providers in the amount of time it takes
the new DNS settings to propagate. (24 to 72 hours)
Another solution is to mirror your sites in a kind of load balancing
arrangement, that will automatically assume the load should one provider fail,
have an outage, or close up shop. This would probably be the most expensive
solution, but it would guarantee no-fault fail-over with no business
interruption to the clients.
This would only require one additional A record in DNS with priority set to
first hit the primary host, and if that fails, then automatically hit the
secondary.
The developer would have to create the code to make sure both hosts are updated
as often as necessary to prevent loss of data should a failure occur.
Doug
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Erika L Walker-Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:30 AM
Subject: RE: For all you freelancers and business owners
| Yeah, it's all back-ed up, etc. that's not an issue at all.
|
| It's someone with enough knowledge of the web industry basically
| "inheriting" the business and keeping it running.
| By the time all is said and done there could be over 400 sites running
| on 3 different servers that just need support and possibly further
| services.
|
| I really like the hosting company solution, as we're pretty tight with
| them. they know CF, they already manage and have access to the servers.
| Probably find a few point people to handle the clients and get
| agreements drawn up.
|
| Does that sound pretty feasible?
|
| Whatever we do, it also needs to have a bit of cascading to it, meaning
| we can let someone "inherit" the business, but what if something happens
| to them just days later? How many levels would you take care of and/or
| arrange? We take all this pretty seriously and I have no intention of
| letting anyone "hang out to dry" because that would be horrible. Well, I
| think so anyway...
|
| So much to do ....
|
| Cheers,
| Erika
|
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Dan Phillips (CFXHosting.com) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:56 AM
| To: CF-Community
| Subject: RE: For all you freelancers and business owners
|
|
| Good point. If the hosting company offers managed services on the
| dedicated server contract, backups and the like should be included in
| there.
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:49 AM
| To: CF-Community
| Subject: Re: For all you freelancers and business owners
|
| Erika,
|
| Here's my experience. When my former employer EBStor.com suddenly closed
|
| its doors, they were all set just to burn a CD with the customer's and
| leave them in the lurch. Fortunately our network guy found a hosting
| company that was willing to take over the contracts for their duration.
|
| If I were you I'd talk with your hosting company. Then get an agreement
| drawn up by a good lawyer that if anything happened to you, the hosting
| company would take over the contracts. Just make sure that they get
| recent
| copies of your sites, and database backups on a regular basis.
|
| larry
|
| At 11:37 AM 11/13/2003, you wrote:
| >What do you do in the event you no longer exist?
| >
| >By either death, disability or winning the lottery.
| >
| >What happens to your customers?
| >Do you have something arranged with someone to take over?
| >
| >We need to come up with a solution soon, and I was curious about how
| >any of you may deal with it.
| >
| >Our work for our clients are not one-offs. They are all using a hosted
| >solution of ours on several dedicated servers. So if we disappeared off
|
| >the face of the earth tomorrow, as long as there was someone to run the
|
| >servers, they'd be fine ... But it's finding that someone. I toyed with
|
| >the idea of asking the actual hosting company if they'd be interested
| >... But before I do that, figured I'd get some other ideas, if there
| >were any ...
| >
| >And it's not like I can put the code in escrow, because it's not just
| >the code. They wouldn't have a clue what to do with the code, they need
|
| >the service.
| >
| >Does any of that make sense?
| >
| >Cheers,
| >Erika
| >
| >
| >----------
| >[
|
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|
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