our site http://www.violetgrey.com http://www.violetgrey.com went down because of this. Luckily we were able to reindex pretty fast before their backups kicked

our site http://www.violetgrey.com http://www.violetgrey.com went down because of this. Luckily we were able to reindex pretty fast before their backups kicked in. Any ideas on how to have fallbacks in such cases?