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It really depends on the company. My suspicion is that companies only get serious about DR once they reach a fairly big size. When I interviewed at Squarespace
by twunde 11y ago
It really depends on the company. My suspicion is that companies only get serious about DR once they reach a fairly big size. When I interviewed at Squarespace they were just finishing building out their second datacenter. At that point it was a DR data center but they were planning on switching all production traffic to it in the coming months. Most of the startups/midsize companies have relied on a third-party for backups ie Rackspace.
- peterwwillis 11y agoThat's what strikes me as odd. Even small and mid-size companies can do this for cheap if they're mostly cloud-based. Stand up the environment at another cloud provider, keep resource use at 1% that of your current provider, implement a continuous replication procedure, document the failover procedure, and test-run once a month. Much less work than actually buying and organizing some small colo space in another DC, and way faster than scrambling to recover. Yet I don't know of a single cloud-dependent company that does this unless it's for performance reasons.