This is the eighth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget.

Snowflakes servers are our enemies, we should avoid them like the plague. Our best allied are fail-proof reproducible steps, even better if coded in an actionable code, like Infrastructure as Code.

We went through many steps, are you sure you remember all the steps? Yes, I know there this guide, but what if you want to add another server? What if you leave the company? What if you change provider? Too many “what if”.

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This is the seventh part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget.

In this post we will check about the “hardest” part of all of it, the money coming out of our pockets.

So, let’s crunch some numbers.

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This guide won’t cover everything, it won’t be a comprehensive guide, and the steps that are shown need to be carefully reviewed and tested in your development/pre-production environment. …

This is the sixth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget.

How can we make sure our website is always available and not going down when a node is offline?

We could do mainly 2 things:

• Secondary DNS
• Manual Switch

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This guide won’t cover everything, it won’t be a comprehensive guide, and the steps that are shown need to be carefully reviewed and tested in your development/pre-production environment. …

This is the fifth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget.

How can we make sure our second most important asset is safely secured in case of a disaster?

We could mainly 3 things:

• Duplicate VM
• Docker
• Kubernetes

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This guide won’t cover everything, it won’t be a comprehensive guide, and the steps that are shown need to be carefully reviewed and tested in your development/pre-production environment. …

This is the fourth part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget.

How can we make sure our second most important asset is safely secured in case of a disaster?

We could mainly 2 things:

• Distributed Storage
• Backups

Disclaimer
This guide won’t cover everything, it won’t be a comprehensive guide, and the steps that are shown need to be carefully reviewed and tested in your development/pre-production environment. …

This is the third part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget.

How can we make sure our most important asset (which is the DB) is safely secured in case of a disaster?

We could do mainly 2 things (and you better do both of them):

• Backups
• Redundancy

Disclaimer
This guide won’t cover everything, it won’t be a comprehensive guide, and the steps that are shown need to be carefully reviewed and tested in your development/pre-production environment. …

This is the second part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget.

How can we make sure our second most important asset is safely secured in case of a disaster?

We could mainly 2 things:

• Distributed Storage
• Backups

Disclaimer
This guide won’t cover everything, it won’t be a comprehensive guide, and the steps that are shown need to be carefully reviewed and tested in your development/pre-production environment. …

This is the first part of the series Save yourself from a disaster: Redundancy on a budget.

How can we make sure our most important asset (which is the DB) is safely secured in case of a disaster?

We could do mainly 2 things (and you better do both of them):

• Backups
• Redundancy

Disclaimer
This guide won’t cover everything, it won’t be a comprehensive guide, and the steps that are shown need to be carefully reviewed and tested in your development/pre-production environment. …