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But I'm on my yacht worrying about the cash strapped world of the new internet. I'm using a remote shopping cart company that hasn't paid it's employees in two months. My web host is a unit of Enron. I'm engulfed by the flotsam and jetsam of a burst bubble, and my livelihood is at stake.
What do I do to assure that my site stays afloat while so many web providers are collapsing? Assume that price isn't much of an issue.
1) Build your own cart software - after all it's not rocket science and if you have someone employed/contracted to do this you could also try to get them to create scripts to remove as many of your other external 3rd party dependancies as possible.
2) Move to a less "troubled" hosting company / try to negotiate a better deal with the cash-strapped current one / perhaps even consider self-hosting. In either case you want a service-level-agreement which is rock solid.
3) Move the DNS service to a paid service, again with an SLA. Next to webserver problems the biggest issue I see is DNS probems.
- Tony
We just had our cart go out for three days. One thing that helped a bit was that our site remained up and we directed customers to phone orders to us toll-free.
Then as DrCool, suggests, get away from the eggs all in one basket. Diversify.
