A simple plan to keep your online business alive in a data center fire

If the information noise about the slowdown of Twitter yesterday did not allow you to see the important, then let me inform you. Yesterday, March 10, there was a fire in the data center of the OVH provider in Strasbourg, which is among the top 5 largest providers. The SBG2 data exchange center was completely destroyed (completely burned out) and 30% of the SBG1 data center (several boxes burned out). The other 2 buildings, located nearby, are flooded with water.





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The manual does not pretend to be original and is unlikely to impress professionals. But it is not meant for them. Professionals can simply check their backups one more time. The incident in Strasbourg again showed that even professionals do not always make backups.





If you are not sure about your backups, then our team is ready to conduct a  free audit of  your backup system and give appropriate recommendations.





Write in the comments your ideas on how to further simplify the scheme, speed up the restoration of backups, and what services will help you save on backups.








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