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Website Down - Back Up Plan

  • 04-01-2011 4:45pm
    #1
    NathanKingerlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭


    I read something great over Christmas, that's pretty obvious I guess, but I never thought about it properly before.

    If your website/server is ever down and you have any other type of online platform; such as Facebook/Twitter/YouTube; simply divert your website url to your Facebook business page, etc, and you can still keep your online presence and hopefully continue to make sales!


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  • #2
    Trojan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,414 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    If you have enough access to redirect your site to Facebook, you have enough access to get your site back up and running. The other issue with that is that most websites have their ecommerce facility built into the site, so cannot make online sales. Have a phone number for your sales team prominent, that will help.

    I'd recommend that you have daily backups running which are saved to a different server off-site from your main webserver (or are emailed to a gmail account although be careful in the case that you are storing payment information if you do this).

    Talk to your web developer or hosting company about what your backup and restore procedures are, particularly how long they will take to get back up and running in worst case scenarios.

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  • #3
    irishguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭irishguy


    Trojan wrote: »
    If you have enough access to redirect your site to Facebook, you have enough access to get your site back up and running. The other issue with that is that most websites have their ecommerce facility built into the site, so cannot make online sales. Have a phone number for your sales team prominent, that will help.

    I'd recommend that you have daily backups running which are saved to a different server off-site from your main webserver (or are emailed to a gmail account although be careful in the case that you are storing payment information if you do this).

    Talk to your web developer or hosting company about what your backup and restore procedures are, particularly how long they will take to get back up and running in worst case scenarios.

    You could change where the URL is resolved to with your domain provider and redirect it to facebook/twitter. If how you make sales is through your website then your out of luck until you site is back.
    You could also have a backup of your site running on a different server that you could redirect to. Your best bet would be to speak whoever hosts your site.


  • #4
    amen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭amen


    If how you make sales is through your website then your out of luck until you site is bac
    if your primary income is though the internet and you have sales >=1000s a week you should be running with multiple servers, backup, redundancy etc.

    you should be making your backup server the active server on a regular basis and running on the backup server while making the active server the backup.

    you should have daily backups (at a minimum) and a regular restore from backup to make sure it works.
    You could change where the URL is resolved
    not a good idea. DNS records can take anything from 12-72 hours to propogate by which time your server could be back.

    Better off to have redundancy built in and tested regularly.


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