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Some day this week when the smoke finally clears, I will give a full accounting of what just occurred.
Moral of the story: we will have a real world workable disaster plan in place by the end of the month. It will specifcy that WebmasterWorld will not be offline for no more than 4 hrs maxium regardless of the circumstances.
this could be the biggest member page view day ever.
100k members panicing because our lifeline had been cut... It wouldn't surprise me if this is the most active week ever!
Looking forward to seeing what had happened.....I prepayed for 2 years :P
I for one have realized anew what a great community we all share, thanks to Brett and crew, and how much I'd miss it if it were gone.
Thanks for making it all happen Brett!
AWA
Syzygy
brett has such a strong crowd on here, that it is amazing how people tried to get back to here besides any SE traffic.
we all need the daily fix about our jobs/life/fun... in fact, one of the domains I type in, and not google for it....
brett: i would love to talk about your move to rackspace and the reasons and ideas behind it, whenever we get the chance of meeting face2face...
got my daily fix, good n8!
;-)
P!
I thought about searching out another forum during the down time but decided, NO! There is no other forum that produces the kind of quality information we receive on WW. And part of that quality is due to the very strict rules we have to follow on WW for posting--I don't always like them but someone knows what they are doing here for sure.
Thanks Brett!
In (slight) defense of WestHost. I have a dedicated server there and none of my sites were down. Had it not been for WebmasterWorld, I wouldn't have even known they were having problems.
I have about 20 clients there and none of them went down either.
So, can I arrange a slashdotting? ;)
>>Don't be surprised if you see some glitches this week.<<
I guess Brett has a hidden message here. "some glitches this week" might refer to the start of second stage of Jagger Update :-)
Thanks Brett & Co for all what you have done to bring us back home.
Wiz
My main checkpoints for being safe are as follows:
Always have full control over your domain name. If you buy from a reseller, make sure you have access at the registrar directly, not just via the reseller's systems. It's probably best to go directly with the registrar and make sure it's a fairly reasonable sized one which isn't likely to go bust.
Never rely on one company. It's putting all your eggs in one basket. I'd always keep my DNS provider seperate from my web hosting provider and my email seperate still at the very least. ideally, you want at least two of each. Two DNS providers, two mail providers and two web providers.
Redundacy, redundacy, redundancy...
A minimum of... two power supplies for each server, two hard drives, two bandwidth providers, etc etc.
In my opinion, it's best to go for two medium powered web servers from the start, rather than one high powered server. By doing it from the start, you make sure that your code is scalable and more servers can be added to the mix if need be. Trying to scale up bad code to multiple servers can be a nightmare.
You get to a situation where failure is more likely to occur (because you are dealing with more systems), but you'd need 3 or 4 things to go wrong at the same time before you go offline completely.
Betcha your "after-crash" visits skyrocketed : )
