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Services
HostVentures provides disaster recovery consulting, implementation and support. Our experience in the field is unmatched, ranging from Fortune 100 consulting, to helping small businesses grow, to supporting configurations with over a million unique visitors per day. Please contact us for more information.
Disaster recovery implementation and planning shares many concerns with high availability but present a few unique issues:
- Types of Disasters
Any location is prone to multiple natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes. Acts of terrorism such as those that occured in New York on 9/11 wiped out many datacenters and businesses. Sabotage by employees or others can result in hardware and data losses. Fire is a serious risk in any location and especially datacenters.
- Potential Losses and Disruptions
Losses can range from lost data, hardware, and networks to personnel losses or inaccessibility.
- Frequent Recovery Drills
A disaster recovery plan is useless unless it is thoroughly tested on a regular basis. Simulation drills should encompass every type of potential loss.
- Acceptable Losses
The amount of potential data loss must be balanced with cost and performance implications. For example, even real-time database replication can result in lost transactions, however few. A daily backup only plan must account for potential loss of a days worth of data. However, a real-time transaction coordination across multiple global locations may not meet performance requirement objectives. All these factors must be carefully considered and accounted for in system and software architecture as well as a disaster recovery plan.