CodySwannGT
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8 years ago Closing in lieu of heroku upgrade
Closed johnsisland closed 8 years ago
CodySwannGT
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8 years ago Closing in lieu of heroku upgrade
Cody, let's discuss options of a backup plan when our web host goes down for long periods of time
From: Cody Swann cody@gunnertech.com Subject: Re: Help?! DDOS attack Date: January 3, 2016 at 3:22:16 PM EST To: Robyn Flick rflick@johnsislandrealestate.com
Yeah, it's just like anything. You can take steps to mitigate this, but it's not cheap.
It basically means doubling everything you have from a hardware standpoint and then paying developers to create the process of failing over to the backups.
Every time I've laid out the costs of having a truly redundant failover DR, the stakeholder has basically said it's too expensive for something that may never happen or may never happen again.
Even at ESPN, it was cost prohibitive.
At the same time, linode and others offer partial redundancy where if one zone (Atlanta) fails, they will restore you onto another zone (London).
That's nice, but in this case, both London and Atlanta were offline.
Here's a nice discussion I found about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10825425